Tropescilloscope: British Films

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