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