Tropescilloscope: A God Am I

Delusions of godhood. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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