Tropescilloscope: Badass Longcoat

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