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