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