Tropescilloscope: Batman Gambit

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