Tropescilloscope: Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking

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