Tropescilloscope: An Arm and a Leg

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