Tropescilloscope: Affectionate Parody

Parody by the loving fans. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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