Tropescilloscope: Becoming the Mask

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