Tropescilloscope: Bloody Hilarious

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