Tropescilloscope: Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking

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