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