Tropescilloscope: Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking

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