Tropescilloscope: Affectionate Parody

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

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