Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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