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