Tropescilloscope: Canadian Movies

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