Tropescilloscope: An Arm and a Leg

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