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