Tropescilloscope: Big Brother Instinct

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