Tropescilloscope: Blood from the Mouth

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