Tropescilloscope: A Minor Kidroduction

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