Tropescilloscope: All There in the Manual

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