Tropescilloscope: An Arm and a Leg

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