Tropescilloscope: Batman Gambit

A plan that relies on its victims doing what they do naturally. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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