Tropescilloscope: Break the Haughty

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