Tropescilloscope: Casting Gag

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