Tropescilloscope: And Starring

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