Tropescilloscope: Australian Movies

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