Tropescilloscope: Celebrity Paradox

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