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