Tropescilloscope: British Films

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