Tropescilloscope: Blood from the Mouth

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