Tropescilloscope: Revenge

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