Tropescilloscope: As Long as It Sounds Foreign

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