Tropescilloscope: British Films

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