Tropescilloscope: British Films

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