Tropescilloscope: Canadian Movies

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