Tropescilloscope: B-Movie

A low-budget movie, characterized by a cheesy plot and usually being So Bad, It's Good. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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