Tropescilloscope: An Arm and a Leg

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