Tropescilloscope: Animal Title Index

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