Tropescilloscope: Wretched Hive

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