Tropescilloscope: Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking

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