Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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