Tropescilloscope: British Films

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