Tropescilloscope: Bloodier and Gorier

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