Tropescilloscope: Affectionate Parody

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