Tropescilloscope: Australian Movies

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