Tropescilloscope: As Long as It Sounds Foreign

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