Tropescilloscope: A Minor Kidroduction

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