Tropescilloscope: Bloody Hilarious

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