Tropescilloscope: Boom, Headshot!

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