Tropescilloscope: Canadian Movies

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