Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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