Tropescilloscope: Retirony

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