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