Tropescilloscope: An Arm and a Leg

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