Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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