Tropescilloscope: Canadian Movies

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