Tropescilloscope: Author Appeal

A single gimmick or philosophy is unusually central and widespread, per the author's tastes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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