Tropescilloscope: Affectionate Parody

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

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