Tropescilloscope: Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking

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