Tropescilloscope: Canadian Movies

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