Tropescilloscope: Affectionate Parody

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

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