Tropescilloscope: Adorkable

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