Tropescilloscope: Casting Gag

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