Tropescilloscope: Retcon

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