Tropescilloscope: Book-Ends

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