Tropescilloscope: British Films

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