Tropescilloscope: All There in the Manual

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