Tropescilloscope: Australian Movies

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