Tropescilloscope: Animated Credits Opening

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