Tropescilloscope: British Films

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