Tropescilloscope: Book-Ends

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