Tropescilloscope: Breaking the Fourth Wall

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