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