Tropescilloscope: Canadian Movies

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