Tropescilloscope: Casting Gag

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