Tropescilloscope: As Long as It Sounds Foreign

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