Tropescilloscope: All There in the Script

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