Tropescilloscope: Bilingual Bonus

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