Tropescilloscope: All There in the Manual

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