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