Tropescilloscope: Casting Gag

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