Tropescilloscope: Break the Haughty

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