Tropescilloscope: All There in the Script

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