Tropescilloscope: Celebrity Paradox

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