Tropescilloscope: And Starring

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