Tropescilloscope: And Starring

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