Tropescilloscope: Hong Kong Films

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