Tropescilloscope: Bloodier and Gorier

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