Tropescilloscope: And Starring

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