Tropescilloscope: Australian Movies

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