Tropescilloscope: Based on a True Story

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