Tropescilloscope: Aluminum Christmas Trees

Sounds fictional, but does (or at least did) actually exist. (read more at tvtropes.org)

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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