Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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