Tropescilloscope: Animated Credits Opening

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