Tropescilloscope: All There in the Script

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