Tropescilloscope: Australian Movies

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