Tropescilloscope: British Films

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