Tropescilloscope: Chase Scene

nan (read more at tvtropes.org)

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