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