Tropescilloscope: As Long as It Sounds Foreign

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