Tropescilloscope: Canadian Movies

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