Tropescilloscope: Affectionate Parody

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