Tropescilloscope: Affectionate Parody

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

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