Tropescilloscope: Camp Gay

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

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Is Serious Business Line-of-Sight Name Product Placement Dramatic Gun Cock Becoming the Mask Brutal Honesty Gilligan Cut Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Wounded Gazelle Gambit Cold-Blooded Torture I'm a Humanitarian What Happened to the Mouse? Soft Glass All Just a Dream Obviously Evil Woman in White The Ace Italian Films Artistic License – Law Jerk with a Heart of Gold No Antagonist Gold Digger Mexican Standoff Dogged Nice Guy Kubrick Stare Empathic Environment Not So Different Canadian Movies Hope Spot Black Best Friend Roaring Rampage of Revenge Chekhov's Gunman Babies Ever After Due to the Dead The Ditz Composite Character Parental Incest No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Taking You with Me Knight Templar Gratuitous English Dark Reprise Kill 'em All Vacation Films Sequel Escalation Adaptation Name Change Setting Update Adults Are Useless Eye Scream Did Not Get the Girl Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Emphasis! Bullying a Dragon Bittersweet Ending Slap-Slap-Kiss The Mafia Implacable Man Camera Abuse Star-Crossed Lovers Suddenly SHOUTING! Character Development Took a Level in Badass Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Cassandra Truth Shout-Out Loophole Abuse Woman Scorned Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Dirty Old Man Death by Irony Married to the Job Real Life Writes the Plot The Stoic Slasher Smile Pragmatic Adaptation Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene As Long as It Sounds Foreign Take That! Cool Guns All There in the Manual Sassy Black Woman Politically Incorrect Villain Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Credits Gag Here We Go Again! Retcon Award-Bait Song Friend to All Children Chekhov's Gun Stuff Blowing Up All Girls Want Bad Boys Better to Die than Be Killed Ghost Fiction Film Series Television Movie Index Recycled IN SPACE! Drowning My Sorrows Not Quite Dead No Celebrities Were Harmed Cool Old Lady Retired Badass Corpsing Adaptation Dye-Job Morality Pet Show Within a Show Villain Song Hero of Another Story Death by Sex Badass Longcoat Hidden Depths Big Applesauce Our Vampires Are Different The Un-Reveal Psycho for Hire Not So Stoic The Power of Love Only in It for the Money Villain Ball Genre Shift Unspoken Plan Guarantee Mystery and Detective Films Non-Indicative Name Developing Doomed Characters Ambiguously Gay Market-Based Title Mugging the Monster Not Using the "Z" Word '80s Hair Leaning on the Fourth Wall I Need a Freaking Drink Shower Scene Intrepid Reporter Only a Flesh Wound Driven to Suicide You Killed My Father Wicked Cultured Hate Sink Training Montage Worthy Opponent Final Girl 20 Minutes into the Future Reality Has No Subtitles The Hero Dies Decoy Protagonist B-Movie Creator Cameo True Companions Word of God Pay Evil unto Evil Evil vs. Evil The Reveal No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Animated Credits Opening Arch-Enemy Bar Brawl Grievous Bottley Harm Defrosting Ice Queen Names to Run Away from Really Fast Fire-Forged Friends Victoria's Secret Compartment Well-Intentioned Extremist The Load Fatal Family Photo Dirty Cop Evil Laugh Body Horror Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Never Found the Body Action Girl Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Deus ex Machina Video Credits Coming-of-Age Story Hypocrite Artistic License – Gun Safety The Lancer Almost Kiss Cloudcuckoolander Bolivian Army Ending Betty and Veronica The Brute Facial Horror The Atoner Actually Pretty Funny There Is No Kill Like Overkill Deconstruction Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!