Tropescilloscope: Book-Ends

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