Tropescilloscope: An Arm and a Leg

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