Tropescilloscope: Book-Ends

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