Tropescilloscope: Affectionate Parody

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