Tropescilloscope: Bloodier and Gorier

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