Tropescilloscope: Catch-Phrase

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