Tropescilloscope: Big Brother Instinct

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