Tropescilloscope: British Films

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