Tropescilloscope: Australian Movies

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