Tropescilloscope: British Films

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