Tropescilloscope: Casting Gag

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