Tropescilloscope: Affectionate Parody

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

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