Tropescilloscope: Canadian Movies

nan (read more at tvtropes.org)

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