Tropescilloscope: Casting Gag

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