Tropescilloscope: Blood from the Mouth

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