Tropescilloscope: Casting Gag

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