Tropescilloscope: Casting Gag

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