Tropescilloscope: Beauty Is Never Tarnished

Girls hardly get dirty or scuffed; that takes away from their beauty! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Police are Useless Victoria's Secret Compartment Up to Eleven Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Final Girl Attempted Rape Music Stories The Lost Lenore Bad Boss Line-of-Sight Name The Stoic Poor Communication Kills Evil Plan Stuff Blowing Up Would Hit a Girl After the End Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Soft Glass Shut Up, Hannibal! Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Bad Guy Wins Hidden Depths Deadpan Snarker Naïve Newcomer Mr. Fanservice Room Full of Crazy Those Two Guys Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Insult Backfire Expy Heroic Sacrifice Loophole Abuse Butt-Monkey Anachronism Stew Mood Whiplash Jerk Jock Drowning My Sorrows Blood Knight The Oner Auto Erotica Unwitting Instigator of Doom Smug Snake Wounded Gazelle Gambit Costume Porn Chekhov's Gun Jitter Cam Tranquil Fury Knight Templar Whole Plot Reference Badass Longcoat Well-Intentioned Extremist Gory Discretion Shot Evil-Detecting Dog Knife Nut Action Prologue It Will Never Catch On Faux Affably Evil Funny Background Event Advertised Extra Blackmail Suspiciously Similar Substitute Cloudcuckoolander Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Downer Ending Creepy Child Older Than They Look Ironic Echo Trailers Always Spoil The Ghost Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Mooks Becoming the Mask Artistic License – Geography My Greatest Failure Crucified Hero Shot Scenery Porn Chiaroscuro Only a Flesh Wound War Is Hell Easily Forgiven Exactly What It Says on the Tin Big Fancy House Evil Is Hammy Dark and Troubled Past Death Glare Bond One-Liner Creator Cameo Moment Killer Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Pyrrhic Victory Not Using the "Z" Word Calling the Old Man Out How We Got Here Obviously Evil Logo Joke Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Imagine Spot Light Is Not Good Broken Aesop Sci-Fi Horror Slasher Movie Yandere Mind Screw Married to the Job Bare Your Midriff The '90s Slap-Slap-Kiss Death Seeker The Brute For the Evulz Fatal Family Photo Villainous Breakdown Jerkass Overprotective Dad Disproportionate Retribution Shirtless Scene Improbable Aiming Skills British Films Woman Scorned Eye Scream Your Head A-Splode It Can Think Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Is Serious Business In the Back Put on a Bus Rasputinian Death Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking No-Sell Punny Name Bi the Way Wrong Genre Savvy Alliterative Name Abhorrent Admirer Small Name, Big Ego Neck Snap One-Man Army Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Badass Boast Bar Brawl I'm a Humanitarian The Power of Love Adaptation Dye-Job Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Curse Cut Short Author Appeal A Father to His Men What You Are in the Dark The Stinger Properly Paranoid Reality Ensues Those Two Bad Guys Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Hong Kong Films Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Red Oni, Blue Oni Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Your Cheating Heart Catapult Nightmare You Have Failed Me Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Earn Your Happy Ending An Aesop Informed Ability Ugly Guy, Hot Wife You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Only One Name Fatal Flaw Loads and Loads of Characters Death by Adaptation Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Deliberate Values Dissonance This Is Gonna Suck Adult Fear Take a Third Option Anti-Hero Air-Vent Passageway Noodle Incident Documentary Artistic License – History Amoral Attorney Hero Antagonist Romantic False Lead The Hero Chekhov's Skill Armor-Piercing Question I Have Your Wife Bloody Hilarious In Name Only Affably Evil Authority Equals Asskicking No Antagonist True Companions Paper-Thin Disguise Mad Scientist Star-Crossed Lovers Big Damn Heroes Manipulative Bastard Precision F-Strike Missing Mom Bowdlerise Unusual Euphemism Children Are Innocent Broken Pedestal Even Evil Has Standards Anti-Villain Market-Based Title Dissonant Serenity Heel Realization timeperiod Would Hurt a Child Cruel and Unusual Death Big "NO!" Vitriolic Best Buds Historical Villain Upgrade More Dakka Epic Movie Jump Scare Taking the Bullet Make It Look Like an Accident Ambiguously Gay Playing Gertrude Ambiguous Ending My God, What Have I Done? Film Noir Index Kick the Son of a Bitch Chase Scene Henpecked Husband Smoking Is Cool Agony of the Feet Bland-Name Product Red Right Hand Alas, Poor Villain Dirty Old Man Running Gag Age Lift Pay Evil unto Evil Jerk with a Heart of Gold Serious Business Fake Shemp Say My Name Slasher Smile Affectionate Parody Love at First Sight Storming the Castle The Vamp Genre Shift Greater-Scope Villain The Dog Bites Back Kill It with Fire Vacation Films Woman in White Death by Sex Shell-Shocked Veteran Hoist by His Own Petard Bolivian Army Ending Car Fu Extreme Doormat The Great Depression Dropped a Bridge on Him Empathic Environment Exact Words Ship Tease Foreshadowing Lampshade Hanging Cool Old Lady Double-Meaning Title Punch-Clock Villain Hollywood Law Left the Background Music On Improvised Weapon Combat Pragmatist All There in the Script Setting Update Mercy Kill Happily Married '80s Hair Together in Death Developing Doomed Characters I Did What I Had to Do Retired Badass Every Car Is a Pinto Man on Fire Reality Is Unrealistic Cool Shades The Load Call-Back Pre-Mortem One-Liner Recycled IN SPACE! 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Adorkable Sports Stories Country Matters An Arm and a Leg Depraved Bisexual Tempting Fate Awesome, but Impractical Blatant Lies Product Placement The Musical Romantic Comedy Better to Die than Be Killed Wham Line Danny Peary Cult Movies List Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Offscreen Moment of Awesome Too Dumb to Live The Cameo Aluminum Christmas Trees Sinister Minister Major Injury Underreaction Chekhov's Gunman Bald of Evil Mythology Gag Pragmatic Villainy Gone Horribly Right Big Bad The Casanova Badass Grandpa Throwing Your Sword Always Works Stealth Pun He Who Fights Monsters Driven to Suicide Parental Substitute Insane Troll Logic Suddenly SHOUTING! Evil vs. Evil Aside Glance Brick Joke Token Minority Badass Bookworm Obfuscating Stupidity Ms. Fanservice Crazy-Prepared Badass in a Nice Suit Face Death with Dignity Needs Wiki Magic Love Hero of Another Story Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Dull Surprise Revenge Disappeared Dad Race Lift Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Silent Movie The Alleged Car Deus ex Machina Artistic License – Law The Chick Hell Is That Noise Red Eyes, Take Warning Enemy Mine Death of a Child Only in It for the Money One Steve Limit Frame-Up Mugging the Monster Random Events Plot Facial Horror Sequel Hook Artistic License – Gun Safety Rewatch Bonus Real Life Laser-Guided Karma Plot Hole Stalker with a Crush Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Naked People Are Funny Handicapped Badass Camp Gay Translation Convention Fan Disservice Fanservice Extra Japanese Films Cain and Abel Visual Pun Unresolved Sexual Tension Hypocritical Humor Overly Long Gag Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Cassandra Truth "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Not Quite Dead Oh, Crap! Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Reasonable Authority Figure Made of Iron Thriller Unreliable Narrator Interrupted Suicide "Awesome McCool" Name Non-Indicative Name Cool Car Wham Shot "Well Done, Son!" Guy Heroic BSoD It's Personal Roaring Rampage of Revenge Demoted to Extra Mystery and Detective Films Military and Warfare Films Only Sane Man Determinator Daylight Horror Dying Moment of Awesome Kids Are Cruel Index of Film Westerns Video Credits Beta Couple Black and Gray Morality Corpsing The Hero Dies Asshole Victim Only Known by Their Nickname Eiffel Tower Effect Sir Swears-a-Lot N-Word Privileges Shipper on Deck Instant Death Bullet The Lancer Match Cut Celebrity Paradox Flashback Rule of Funny The Remake What the Hell, Hero? Narrator Works Set in World War II Super Strength Fiery Redhead Male Gaze Credits Gag Determinator aka: The Determinator Police Brutality Early-Bird Cameo Ass Shove Took a Level in Jerkass Apocalypse How Let's Get Dangerous! Face–Heel Turn Does Not Like Shoes And the Adventure Continues I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Irony For Want of a Nail Sexy Discretion Shot Humiliation Conga Grievous Bottley Harm Ripped from the Headlines Demonic Possession Eagleland No Name Given Pet the Dog The Chessmaster Deconstruction From Nobody to Nightmare And Starring Fire-Forged Friends 20 Minutes into the Future Nice Hat Cluster F-Bomb The Dragon Show Within a Show Shoot the Shaggy Dog Action Genre Did Not Get the Girl Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bait-and-Switch Undying Loyalty Belligerent Sexual Tension Friend to All Children "Shaggy Dog" Story Mistaken for Gay Cool Guns MacGuffin Beauty Is Never Tarnished Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Here We Go Again! Ambiguous Disorder Self-Deprecation You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Important Haircut Not So Stoic Spanner in the Works Body Horror BFG Really Gets Around Curb-Stomp Battle Dramedy Never Trust a Trailer Disguised in Drag As Himself Big Eater Re-Cut Bad "Bad Acting" All Girls Want Bad Boys The Dreaded Pimped-Out Dress B-Movie Killed Mid-Sentence No Ending Film Noir Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The End... Or Is It? The Big Guy Spell My Name with an "S" Immune to Bullets Bavarian Fire Drill Gratuitous English Not Even Bothering with the Accent Adaptation Expansion Bloodless Carnage Closed Circle Berserk Button Foregone Conclusion Eldritch Abomination Taking You with Me Skewed Priorities Does This Remind You of Anything? Animal Motifs Crazy Jealous Guy Neck Lift Casting Gag Broken Bird Disney Villain Death Pretty in Mink Artistic License – Military Maybe Ever After Daddy's Girl Crapsack World Shout-Out The '60s Honor Before Reason Big Brother Instinct Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bring My Brown Pants Guile Hero Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Meaningful Background Event Evil Sounds Deep Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Heterosexual Life-Partners Spiteful Spit Evil Brit Sequel Escalation Villain with Good Publicity The X of Y Author Avatar Martial Arts Movie Catch-Phrase The '70s Rule of Symbolism Fat Bastard Sacrificial Lion The '80s Russian Films Reckless Gun Usage Karma Houdini Politically Incorrect Villain Big-Bad Ensemble Names to Run Away from Really Fast Babies Ever After Adapted Out Large Ham Parental Abandonment Shown Their Work No Celebrities Were Harmed Meet Cute Tap on the Head Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Kick the Dog Be Careful What You Wish For Alpha Bitch You Killed My Father Big Applesauce Superhero Drill Sergeant Nasty Domestic Abuse Fun with Acronyms The Smurfette Principle Psychological Thriller Action Girl Freeze-Frame Bonus Stock Footage Damsel in Distress Arc Words Red Shirt Fantastic Racism Hair-Trigger Temper Extremely Short Timespan Gender Flip Meaningful Echo Epic Fail Dwindling Party Captain Obvious An Axe to Grind Amusing Injuries Adaptational Badass Actually Pretty Funny Lock and Load Montage Everyone Has Standards Mama Bear Ghost Fiction Off-into-the-Distance Ending Not What It Looks Like Bury Your Gays Ominous Latin Chanting Slashed Throat Back from the Dead Fanservice Black Dude Dies First Anachronic Order Gold Digger Dutch Angle Madness Mantra Half the Man He Used to Be No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Antagonist Title Didn't Think This Through Covers Always Lie Our Vampires Are Different Redemption Equals Death Retcon Groin Attack Leave the Camera Running Parental Neglect My Beloved Smother Took a Level in Badass What Happened to the Mouse? Not So Above It All Idiot Ball Australian Movies Central Theme Mr. Exposition Suspiciously Specific Denial Ungrateful Bastard Refuge in Audacity Animal Title Index Worthy Opponent No OSHA Compliance Distracted by the Sexy Camera Abuse Heroes Want Redheads Our Zombies Are Different Rousing Speech Word of God Fate Worse than Death Break the Cutie Expository Hairstyle Change Blood from the Mouth Bottomless Magazines Ascended Extra One-Word Title Captain Ersatz Composite Character Canon Foreigner Italian Films Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Artistic License – Biology Shower Scene Psychopathic Manchild Improbable Weapon User Grey and Gray Morality The Film of the Book Establishing Character Moment Despair Event Horizon Fantasy Films Tagline In Medias Res Even Evil Has Loved Ones Novelization