Tropescilloscope: Australian Movies

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