Tropescilloscope: Becoming the Mask

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