Tropescilloscope: Australian Movies

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