Tropescilloscope: And Starring

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