Tropescilloscope: Room Full of Crazy

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