Tropescilloscope: Becoming the Mask

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