Tropescilloscope: Australian Movies

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