Tropescilloscope: Australian Movies

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