Tropescilloscope: Catch-Phrase

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