Tropescilloscope: Catch-Phrase

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