Tropescilloscope: Book-Ends

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