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