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