Tropescilloscope: Chuck Cunningham Syndrome

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More Tropes Comically Missing the Point Brother–Sister Incest Bond One-Liner Dies Wide Open Broken Bird Expy Kill 'em All Martial Arts Movie Insult Backfire "The Reason You Suck" Speech Informed Ability Demoted to Extra Serial Killer An Arm and a Leg Determinator aka: The Determinator Ms. Fanservice Actually Pretty Funny Take That! Hooker with a Heart of Gold Faking the Dead The Alleged Car Easily Forgiven Dirty Coward Cat Fight Animated Credits Opening Superhero Market-Based Title Black Dude Dies First Berserk Button The Ghost Film Series Cool Old Lady The Sociopath Pretty in Mink Hate Sink Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Coming-of-Age Story Kick the Son of a Bitch Bi the Way And I Must Scream Suddenly SHOUTING! Mood Whiplash Shut Up, Hannibal! Gender Flip Agony of the Feet Skewed Priorities Historical Villain Upgrade Sealed Evil in a Can Bring My Brown Pants Celebrity Paradox Serious Business Call-Forward Sassy Black Woman Yandere Pre-Mortem One-Liner No Good Deed Goes Unpunished From Bad to Worse I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Anachronic Order Those Two Guys Reasonable Authority Figure Adapted Out Suspiciously Specific Denial Grey and Gray Morality Morality Pet The Bully The '60s Bolivian Army Ending Back from the Dead Rewatch Bonus Groin Attack Interrupted Suicide Action Genre Shout-Out Bound and Gagged Dressing as the Enemy Plucky Comic Relief Honor Before Reason La Résistance Cat Scare Put on a Bus Fanservice Deadpan Snarker Bald of Evil Big "NO!" Moment Killer Rule of Funny Hypocritical Humor Mercy Kill Exactly What It Says on the Tin Badass Normal All There in the Manual No Celebrities Were Harmed Parental Abandonment Ominous Latin Chanting Dark Reprise Creepy Child Genre Savvy Belligerent Sexual Tension Parental Incest Air-Vent Passageway Retirony Babies Ever After folderlabel Affably Evil All Men Are Perverts Lampshade Hanging Leitmotif Imagine Spot Hypocrite Fun with Acronyms Red Oni, Blue Oni Framing Device Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Evil Is Petty Crapsack World Chiaroscuro Bland-Name Product Our Vampires Are Different Not Even Bothering with the Accent Woman in White Action Survivor The Bad Guy Wins Darkest Hour Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Starscream The Stoic Truth in Television Broken Aesop Chekhov's Gunman Smug Snake Broken Pedestal The Hero Heel–Face Turn Wretched Hive Up to Eleven Spanner in the Works You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Alliterative Name Instant Death Bullet Attempted Rape Lock and Load Montage Offscreen Teleportation Adaptational Attractiveness Knight Templar An Aesop Not So Above It All Your Head A-Splode Shown Their Work Insistent Terminology Face–Heel Turn Cruel and Unusual Death Cold-Blooded Torture Posthumous Character Black Best Friend Tranquil Fury Camp Gay Real Life Pragmatic Villainy It Can Think The Casanova Mooks Evil Laugh Guns Akimbo Manly Tears One Steve Limit Eureka Moment Foregone Conclusion Crucified Hero Shot Decoy Protagonist Humans Are Bastards The Dragon The Brute Bloody Hilarious Logo Joke Black Comedy Rape Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Spared by the Adaptation Twist Ending Cain and Abel I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Whole Plot Reference Vitriolic Best Buds Plot Hole Anti-Hero Your Cheating Heart Arc Words Asshole Victim Calling the Old Man Out Jump Scare Kubrick Stare Death of a Child Killed Mid-Sentence The Cavalry Cool Guns Anguished Declaration of Love Jerk Jock Japanese Films No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Soundtrack Dissonance Older Than They Look Man on Fire Bare Your Midriff Meaningful Echo Double Entendre Index of Film Westerns Gold Digger Roaring Rampage of Revenge Blood from the Mouth A Minor Kidroduction Annoying Younger Sibling He Who Fights Monsters Sexy Discretion Shot Well-Intentioned Extremist Time Skip Animal Title Index Shirtless Scene Here We Go Again! Not So Stoic Karmic Death Scare Chord Revenge Chewing the Scenery Fat Bastard Ghost Fiction Anti-Villain Bittersweet Ending Children Are Innocent Pyrrhic Victory Body Horror Rich Bitch Ambiguous Disorder Spell My Name with an "S" Intergenerational Friendship Sanity Slippage Reckless Gun Usage Pragmatic Adaptation Meaningful Background Event Trailers Always Spoil Becoming the Mask Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Obstructive Bureaucrat Half the Man He Used to Be Artistic License – Geography The Atoner German Films Neck Snap Madness Mantra Unspoken Plan Guarantee The '70s Every Car Is a Pinto Sci-Fi Horror Exact Words It's All About Me Deliberate Values Dissonance Mistaken for Gay Unreliable Narrator Humiliation Conga Insane Troll Logic B-Movie Love at First Sight Fake Shemp Undying Loyalty Epic Movie Super Strength Conspicuous CG Riddle for the Ages Adaptational Badass Room Full of Crazy Does This Remind You of Anything? One-Man Army The Dog Bites Back The Mafia Slashed Throat Armor-Piercing Question Black and Gray Morality It Will Never Catch On Music Stories Continuity Nod What Happened to the Mouse? Auto Erotica Aside Glance Big Eater Femme Fatale Villain Ball Hollywood Law He Knows Too Much Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Early-Bird Cameo Cool Old Guy The Voiceless Sacrificial Lion No Ending The Remake Star-Crossed Lovers Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Disney Villain Death Car Fu Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Villain Opening Scene The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Same Language Dub Dark Action Girl Red Herring Last-Name Basis Historical In-Joke Fourth Date Marriage This Is Gonna Suck The Big Guy Sequel Escalation Ambiguous Ending Handicapped Badass Sole Survivor Taking You with Me Parental Neglect Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Evil Sounds Deep Properly Paranoid Contrived Coincidence Hidden Depths Cool Car A.I. Is a Crapshoot Everyone Has Standards Italian Films Demonic Possession Jerk with a Heart of Gold Needs Wiki Magic Love Based on a True Story Parental Substitute Police are Useless The Stoner Death Glare Mr. Exposition Bowdlerise Artistic License – History Leaning on the Fourth Wall Let's Get Dangerous! Artistic License – Physics Deal with the Devil Bullying a Dragon Creative Closing Credits Brick Joke Villain Protagonist The Load Dull Surprise Deliberately Monochrome Malevolent Masked Men Getting Crap Past the Radar Gilligan Cut Hair-Trigger Temper Does Not Like Shoes Defrosting Ice Queen Unwitting Instigator of Doom Line-of-Sight Name Male Gaze Defiant to the End "Shaggy Dog" Story Bloodless Carnage Big Applesauce Only Known by Their Nickname Ascended Extra Not What It Looks Like The Place Fantastic Racism Australian Movies Works Set in World War II Catch-Phrase Dramatic Gun Cock The Ace Expository Hairstyle Change Very Loosely Based on a True Story Friend to All Children Immune to Bullets Eagleland Improbable Aiming Skills Redshirt Army Authority Equals Asskicking The '90s Important Haircut Overly Long Gag Real Life Writes the Plot Badass Grandpa Irony Villain with Good Publicity May–December Romance Fiery Redhead Chekhov's Skill Happily Married Artistic License – Law Alpha Bitch Karma Houdini Even Evil Has Standards Television Movie Index As Long as It Sounds Foreign No Antagonist The Film of the Book Aluminum Christmas Trees Bottomless Magazines Pet the Dog Evil Counterpart Mad Scientist Covers Always Lie Male Frontal Nudity Affectionate Parody Facial Horror Sinister Minister Gorn Chekhov's Gun Victoria's Secret Compartment Sequel Hook Mythology Gag Paper-Thin Disguise Cassandra Truth Jitter Cam Did Not Get the Girl The Smart Guy Film Noir Implacable Man Nice Hat Call-Back Manipulative Bastard Genre Throwback Guile Hero Once More, with Clarity! Dutch Angle Stepford Smiler Ripped from the Headlines Get Out! Adaptation Expansion Offscreen Moment of Awesome Vomit Indiscretion Shot Villainous Breakdown Despair Event Horizon Author Avatar Award-Bait Song Dying Moment of Awesome Those Two Bad Guys Distracted by the Sexy Never Trust a Trailer Rule of Three Early Installment Weirdness Jerkass Has a Point What You Are in the Dark Reality Is Unrealistic Bad "Bad Acting" Curse Cut Short The Lancer Crazy Jealous Guy Psychological Thriller Stealth Pun Pimped-Out Dress Creator Cameo Gone Horribly Right Zombie Stories The Great Depression Drill Sergeant Nasty Mundane Made Awesome The Mole Dramatic Irony Death Seeker Scenery Porn Never Found the Body Would Hurt a Child British Films The Oner The Dreaded The Un-Reveal Freeze-Frame Bonus War Is Hell Title Drop How We Got Here Police Brutality Brainless Beauty Meaningful Name Hero of Another Story Visual Pun Naïve Newcomer Anyone Can Die Vomit Discretion Shot Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Really Gets Around Cowboy Cop Improvised Weapon Retired Badass Danny Peary Cult Movies List Rape as Drama Adaptational Villainy Stealth Hi/Bye Politically Incorrect Villain Rule of Symbolism Toplessness from the Back Big Fancy House Flashback The Alcoholic Wrong Genre Savvy Rated M for Manly Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Cameo "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Film Noir Index Stalker with a Crush All There in the Script Storming the Castle Training Montage Disney Death An Axe to Grind Central Theme Ambiguously Gay Genre Shift Historical Hero Upgrade Boom, Headshot! Recycled IN SPACE! Department of Redundancy Department Vacation Films Rule of Cool Loads and Loads of Characters Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Corrupt Corporate Executive No Name Given Alas, Poor Villain Punch-Clock Villain I'm a Humanitarian Evil Is Hammy Papa Wolf Public Domain Feature Films Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Jerkass Faux Affably Evil Frame-Up Dumb Blonde Gratuitous English Butt-Monkey Horror Comedy Big Damn Heroes One-Word Title BFG NO INDOOR VOICE Race Lift Closed Circle Mr. Fanservice Adaptation Dye-Job Dirty Old Man Big Brother Instinct Advertised Extra Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Meet Cute Badass Longcoat Betty and Veronica Naked People Are Funny Christmas Movies Index For the Evulz Lighter and Softer Worthy Opponent Rasputinian Death Composite Character As You Know It's Personal Chase Scene Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Bait-and-Switch Psychopathic Manchild The '50s Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Be Careful What You Wish For Wham Line Vampire Fiction Not So Different Famous Last Words Nothing Is Scarier Earn Your Happy Ending Manic Pixie Dream Girl Kill It with Fire Four-Temperament Ensemble Determinator Bloodier and Gorier Brutal Honesty Fire-Forged Friends timeperiod Hoist by His Own Petard Our Zombies Are Different "Well Done, Son!" Guy Artistic License – Military Never My Fault Evil-Detecting Dog Actor Allusion Crazy-Prepared Mexican Standoff My Greatest Failure Action Prologue Gainax Ending Red Eyes, Take Warning Historical-Domain Character Epic Fail Stylistic Suck Eye Scream Pretty Little Headshots Animal Motifs Awesome, but Impractical The End... Or Is It? All Just a Dream Heroic BSoD Fantasy Films Blackmail Extremely Short Timespan Left the Background Music On Flipping the Bird Death by Adaptation Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies From Nobody to Nightmare Blood Knight The Ditz Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Men Are the Expendable Gender Evil Brit Green-Eyed Monster More Dakka French Films Noodle Incident Good Is Not Nice Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Lost Lenore Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Fan Disservice Hell Is That Noise Bad Boss Those Wacky Nazis Better to Die than Be Killed MacGuffin A Date with Rosie Palms Show Within a Show Empathic Environment Nice Guy Rousing Speech Outrun the Fireball Author Appeal Grievous Bottley Harm Badass Bookworm 20 Minutes into the Future Peek-a-Boo Corpse Fate Worse than Death Daddy's Girl Hong Kong Films Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Faceless The X of Y Woman Scorned Five-Man Band Depraved Bisexual What the Hell, Hero? Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Red Right Hand Foil Badass Boast Corpsing My God, What Have I Done? Hope Spot Eldritch Abomination Age Lift Catapult Nightmare As the Good Book Says... Narrator Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Reality Ensues Kick the Dog There Is No Kill Like Overkill Camera Abuse Together in Death A Father to His Men Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Captain Ersatz Dogged Nice Guy Psycho for Hire Spiteful Spit Romantic False Lead Say My Name Deconstruction Adaptational Heroism Soft Glass Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Bar Brawl Only in It for the Money Breaking the Fourth Wall Apocalypse How Wounded Gazelle Gambit Suspiciously Similar Substitute Dark and Troubled Past Sadistic Choice Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Kids Are Cruel Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Tap on the Head Slasher Smile Adults Are Useless Artistic License – Biology Idiot Ball Product Placement True Companions Death by Irony Shell-Shocked Veteran Amoral Attorney World of Ham Cloudcuckoolander Obfuscating Stupidity The Chick Captain Obvious Totally Radical Beware the Nice Ones Downer Ending Beard of Evil Bilingual Bonus Failed a Spot Check Heroic Sacrifice Fanservice Extra Overprotective Dad Take a Third Option Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Slasher Movie Disproportionate Retribution Casting Gag Protagonist Title Ass Shove Made of Iron Biopic Greater-Scope Villain Dark Is Not Evil After the End The Smurfette Principle Ax-Crazy Off with His Head! Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Adult Fear Big Bad Hero Antagonist Stuff Blowing Up Evil Plan Damsel in Distress Word of God Villain Song A God Am I My Beloved Smother Developing Doomed Characters Adorkable Heroes Want Redheads Poor Communication Kills Straight Gay Bavarian Fire Drill Re-Cut In Medias Res Canadian Movies Dual Wielding Action Girl Cool Shades Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Gory Discretion Shot You Killed My Father Arranged Marriage Took a Level in Badass Random Events Plot Destination Defenestration Bunny-Ears Lawyer Knife Nut Science Fiction Films Batman Gambit Mugging the Monster Evil vs. Evil Scenery Gorn Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Freudian Excuse Eiffel Tower Effect Refuge in Audacity The Quiet One '80s Hair The Hero Dies Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Anachronism Stew Dropped a Bridge on Him Major Injury Underreaction Silence Is Golden Precision F-Strike Pay Evil unto Evil Curb-Stomp Battle Drowning My Sorrows Playing Gertrude Homage Almost Kiss Race Against the Clock Sir Swears-a-Lot Fatal Family Photo Match Cut Non-Indicative Name Monumental Damage Redemption Equals Death Diabolus ex Machina N-Word Privileges In the Back Credits Gag Token Minority Military and Warfare Films Neck Lift Costume Porn As Himself And Starring Adaptation Distillation Abusive Parents Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Running Gag Tempting Fate Only Sane Man Abhorrent Admirer Funny Background Event Bury Your Gays Improbable Weapon User Scary Black Man Unusually Uninteresting Sight Mind Screw In Name Only Horror Films Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Make It Look Like an Accident Loophole Abuse Heterosexual Life-Partners Thriller Bond Villain Stupidity Canon Foreigner The Power of Love Tagline The '80s Mama Bear Obviously Evil Sports Stories Large Ham Throwing Your Sword Always Works "Awesome McCool" Name Russian Films Domestic Abuse Black Comedy Disguised in Drag The Stinger Dirty Cop Novelization Book-Ends Extreme Doormat Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Big Bad Duumvirate Maybe Ever After Light Is Not Good Establishing Character Moment Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Only One Name Hollywood Darkness Oh, Crap! Wicked Cultured Funny Foreigner Drugs Are Bad Punny Name Country Matters I Need a Freaking Drink O.O.C. Is Serious Business Ironic Echo Shipper on Deck Reality Has No Subtitles Henpecked Husband Break the Haughty Manchild Ungrateful Bastard Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Dramedy Amusing Injuries Heel Realization Video Credits Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Disappeared Dad Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Off-into-the-Distance Ending Didn't Think This Through No-Sell Retcon And the Adventure Continues Arch-Enemy Documentary Red Shirt She's Got Legs Character Development Due to the Dead Smoking Is Cool She Cleans Up Nicely Only a Flesh Wound All for Nothing Accidental Murder Blatant Lies Not Using the "Z" Word Names to Run Away from Really Fast Combat Pragmatist Silent Movie The Vamp Setting Update Love Triangle Face Death with Dignity Slap-Slap-Kiss Break the Cutie You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Spiritual Successor Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Drives Like Crazy Beta Couple For Want of a Nail Deus ex Machina Too Dumb to Live Fainting Death by Sex Stock Footage Daylight Horror No OSHA Compliance Antagonist Title Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Laser-Guided Karma Adaptation Name Change Married to the Job Translation Convention The Reveal Card-Carrying Villain Dwindling Party Self-Deprecation Took a Level in Jerkass I Have Your Wife Foreshadowing Would Hit a Girl Romantic Comedy Dissonant Serenity Shower Scene Fish out of Water Wham Shot Fingore Mystery and Detective Films Made of Explodium I Did What I Had to Do Darker and Edgier Cluster F-Bomb Eyepatch of Power Ship Tease Have a Gay Old Time All Girls Want Bad Boys Beauty Is Never Tarnished Taking the Bullet Shoot the Shaggy Dog Not Quite Dead Big-Bad Ensemble You Have Failed Me Final Girl Accidental Misnaming Double-Meaning Title Motor Mouth Enemy Mine Laughing Mad Driven to Suicide Unusual Euphemism The Musical Small Name, Big Ego Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Chessmaster Missing Mom Badass in a Nice Suit Fatal Flaw Artistic License – Gun Safety Intrepid Reporter Unresolved Sexual Tension Leave the Camera Running Mighty Whitey