Tropescilloscope: Animated Credits Opening

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