Tropescilloscope: Camp Gay

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

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