Tropescilloscope: Bring My Brown Pants

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