Tropescilloscope: Canadian Movies

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