Tropescilloscope: Book-Ends

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