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