Tropescilloscope: Camp Gay

A flamboyant gay character. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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