Tropescilloscope: Based on a True Story

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