Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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