Tropescilloscope: Becoming the Mask

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