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