Tropescilloscope: British Films

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