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