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