Tropescilloscope: An Arm and a Leg

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