Tropescilloscope: Australian Movies

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