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)

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