Tropescilloscope: All There in the Script

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