Tropescilloscope: Chiaroscuro

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More Tropes Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Never My Fault This Is Gonna Suck Danny Peary Cult Movies List Adults Are Useless Really Gets Around Villain Song Training Montage Russian Films Kill It with Fire Affably Evil From Bad to Worse Left the Background Music On Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Parental Neglect The Load Femme Fatale Developing Doomed Characters "Shaggy Dog" Story Serial Killer Mama Bear Brutal Honesty The Un-Reveal Hollywood Darkness The Dreaded Ominous Latin Chanting Face Death with Dignity Auto Erotica Rewatch Bonus Race Lift Break the Haughty Boom, Headshot! '80s Hair Canadian Movies Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Death of a Child Science Fiction Films Belligerent Sexual Tension Driven to Suicide Badass Normal Offscreen Teleportation Translation Convention And Starring Cool Shades The Place Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Mistaken for Gay Bavarian Fire Drill Pyrrhic Victory Freeze-Frame Bonus British Films Artistic License – Biology Major Injury Underreaction Brother–Sister Incest Romantic False Lead Narrator Award-Bait Song Random Events Plot The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Card-Carrying Villain Hypocrite Expy Badass Longcoat Bar Brawl Shipper on Deck Antagonist Title Sequel Hook Kill 'em All Only a Flesh Wound Manly Tears Needs Wiki Magic Love Comically Missing the Point Chekhov's Skill I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Death by Irony Properly Paranoid Stock Footage Cassandra Truth Pay Evil unto Evil Author Appeal Amusing Injuries Early-Bird Cameo Soundtrack Dissonance Be Careful What You Wish For The Bad Guy Wins Dutch Angle Badass Boast Babies Ever After Didn't Think This Through Shell-Shocked Veteran Eye Scream Say My Name Creative Closing Credits Laser-Guided Karma As Himself Heroic Sacrifice The Cavalry The Film of the Book Country Matters Big Bad Composite Character Rule of Symbolism Here We Go Again! Unspoken Plan Guarantee You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Reality Is Unrealistic Even Evil Has Loved Ones Nice Hat Taking You with Me Alpha Bitch Tagline Thriller Dirty Old Man Bland-Name Product Biopic Apocalypse How Due to the Dead The Dragon Chekhov's Gunman Betty and Veronica Yandere Pet the Dog Bald of Evil Historical Villain Upgrade Evil Is Hammy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Self-Deprecation Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Fish out of Water Gainax Ending Last-Name Basis My Greatest Failure Up to Eleven Action Genre Rule of Three You Killed My Father Getting Crap Past the Radar Celebrity Paradox Australian Movies Alas, Poor Villain Aluminum Christmas Trees Defrosting Ice Queen Roaring Rampage of Revenge From Nobody to Nightmare Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Big Fancy House A Minor Kidroduction No Ending Vomit Indiscretion Shot Stepford Smiler Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas An Aesop Destination Defenestration Token Minority Protagonist Title Drill Sergeant Nasty Aside Glance Fatal Flaw Overly Long Gag Red Eyes, Take Warning Music Stories Sir Swears-a-Lot The Alleged Car Large Ham Motor Mouth Naked People Are Funny Easily Forgiven Cool Old Guy Camera Abuse Heterosexual Life-Partners Curb-Stomp Battle I Did What I Had to Do Kick the Son of a Bitch Obviously Evil Scare Chord Hope Spot Mugging the Monster Foil Psychopathic Manchild Adaptation Expansion Sanity Slippage The Reveal Gorn Knight Templar Dumb Blonde Badass Grandpa Crazy-Prepared Brainless Beauty Flashback The Ghost Sadistic Choice Retirony Undying Loyalty Fanservice Blood Knight Informed Ability Knife Nut Black Dude Dies First Those Wacky Nazis She Cleans Up Nicely Psycho for Hire Animal Title Index Hoist by His Own Petard Recycled IN SPACE! 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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome In Medias Res Every Car Is a Pinto Improvised Weapon Title Drop Artistic License – History No-Sell In Name Only Enemy Mine Ungrateful Bastard The Ace Race Against the Clock Unusually Uninteresting Sight Drives Like Crazy Fake Shemp Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Deadpan Snarker All Just a Dream Leave the Camera Running She's Got Legs Maybe Ever After Casting Gag Loads and Loads of Characters Shout-Out Paper-Thin Disguise Blatant Lies Honor Before Reason Double-Meaning Title No OSHA Compliance Ambiguous Ending How We Got Here The Sociopath Artistic License – Military Deal with the Devil Bury Your Gays I'm a Humanitarian Slap-Slap-Kiss Determinator Rich Bitch Real Life Big "NO!" French Films Red Herring Air-Vent Passageway Crazy Jealous Guy Ms. Fanservice Dull Surprise Drowning My Sorrows Put on a Bus Video Credits Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Manipulative Bastard Red Oni, Blue Oni Dying Moment of Awesome The Stoner Non-Indicative Name Rated M for Manly Bunny-Ears Lawyer Hero Antagonist As Long as It Sounds Foreign Jitter Cam Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Smart Guy Chewing the Scenery Film Series Scenery Gorn Establishing Character Moment Four-Temperament Ensemble Meaningful Echo Spanner in the Works The X of Y Never Found the Body Took a Level in Badass Together in Death Arc Words Demoted to Extra Green-Eyed Monster Cool Old Lady Dwindling Party Artistic License – Physics Breaking the Fourth Wall Slasher Movie My Beloved Smother Disguised in Drag Vampire Fiction Lock and Load Montage As the Good Book Says... 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Men Are the Expendable Gender Exactly What It Says on the Tin Those Two Bad Guys Morality Pet Ironic Echo No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Guile Hero Fate Worse than Death Hair-Trigger Temper Jerkass Captain Ersatz Adaptation Dye-Job Hate Sink Meaningful Name Closed Circle Serious Business 20 Minutes into the Future Action Survivor Those Two Guys Dark Is Not Evil Our Vampires Are Different Made of Explodium Time Skip Police Brutality Japanese Films Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Off with His Head! 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For! Emphasis! Black Best Friend Defiant to the End Stealth Hi/Bye Punch-Clock Villain Daylight Horror Big Bad Duumvirate The Smurfette Principle Handicapped Badass Genre Shift All Men Are Perverts MacGuffin Dropped a Bridge on Him Back from the Dead Works Set in World War II Genre Throwback Blood from the Mouth Gratuitous English Artistic License – Law Taking the Bullet Poor Communication Kills A Date with Rosie Palms All There in the Script Hooker with a Heart of Gold Peek-a-Boo Corpse Combat Pragmatist A Father to His Men Leitmotif Greater-Scope Villain Big Brother Instinct Insistent Terminology All There in the Manual Anti-Hero Took a Level in Jerkass A God Am I Anguished Declaration of Love The Hero Dies Heroes Want Redheads Mighty Whitey Stylistic Suck The Alcoholic Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Chick Vomit Discretion Shot Fanservice Extra For Want of a Nail Historical-Domain Character Suspiciously Similar Substitute Broken Pedestal Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Mind Screw Never Trust a Trailer The Voiceless Agony of the Feet Attempted Rape Evil Sounds Deep Cruel and Unusual Death Tap on the Head Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Friend to All Children No Name Given No Celebrities Were Harmed Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Faceless The '80s Missing Mom Ambiguous Disorder No Antagonist Toplessness from the Back timeperiod Rule of Cool Deliberately Monochrome Corrupt Corporate Executive Evil Laugh Sinister Minister Dissonant Serenity Interrupted Suicide It Will Never Catch On Moment Killer Darker and Edgier Silent Movie Empathic Environment An Arm and a Leg Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Leaning on the Fourth Wall Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies What Happened to the Mouse? Not Quite Dead Scary Black Man Gold Digger Villain Opening Scene Naïve Newcomer Ax-Crazy Villain Protagonist Ambiguously Gay The Mafia Once More, with Clarity! Faux Affably Evil Made of Iron Truth in Television The Remake Broken Bird Nothing Is Scarier Amoral Attorney Killed Mid-Sentence Canon Foreigner As You Know Big Applesauce Bloody Hilarious Funny Background Event The Great Depression There Is No Kill Like Overkill Heroic BSoD Soft Glass Precision F-Strike Sacrificial Lion Sports Stories Refuge in Audacity Berserk Button Better to Die than Be Killed Fun with Acronyms Not Even Bothering with the Accent Evil Plan Intergenerational Friendship Index of Film Westerns The Cameo The '50s Camp Gay Evil Counterpart The Hero The Stinger Wham Line Take That! Hero of Another Story Neck Lift Revenge Disappeared Dad Creepy Child Curse Cut Short Arch-Enemy Freudian Excuse Novelization Star-Crossed Lovers Arranged Marriage Worthy Opponent Bond Villain Stupidity One Steve Limit Mercy Kill Hong Kong Films Costume Porn Dies Wide Open Break the Cutie Deliberate Values Dissonance Ship Tease Intrepid Reporter Department of Redundancy Department Line-of-Sight Name Vitriolic Best Buds Jump Scare Exact Words Reality Has No Subtitles Manic Pixie Dream Girl Grievous Bottley Harm Evil Is Petty Bloodier and Gorier Accidental Misnaming Evil Brit Animated Credits Opening Karma Houdini Animal Motifs Genre Savvy Dramedy Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Parental Abandonment Fainting Bait-and-Switch Redemption Equals Death The Stoic Mr. Fanservice The Brute Unreliable Narrator Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Rule of Funny Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Guns Akimbo A.I. Is a Crapshoot Match Cut Heel–Face Turn Catapult Nightmare Mexican Standoff Accidental Murder Dark and Troubled Past Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Only Known by Their Nickname What the Hell, Hero? Pre-Mortem One-Liner Insane Troll Logic Retired Badass What You Are in the Dark Villain with Good Publicity Framing Device Neck Snap Hell Is That Noise Madness Mantra Adaptational Heroism Manchild Big-Bad Ensemble Final Girl May–December Romance Even Evil Has Standards Groin Attack Failed a Spot Check Chekhov's Gun Author Avatar World of Ham I Just Shot Marvin in the Face All for Nothing Your Cheating Heart Deconstruction Martial Arts Movie Downer Ending Bring My Brown Pants German Films He Who Fights Monsters Bottomless Magazines Reckless Gun Usage Psychological Thriller Broken Aesop Butt-Monkey Armor-Piercing Question Did Not Get the Girl Humans Are Bastards Storming the Castle Car Fu Artistic License – Gun Safety It Can Think Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Italian Films Mundane Made Awesome Dramatic Irony Mr. Exposition Spell My Name with an "S" Slashed Throat Awesome, but Impractical Wicked Cultured Karmic Death Good Is Not Nice Disproportionate Retribution Military and Warfare Films Adaptation Name Change One-Word Title Police are Useless Not So Above It All In the Back Does This Remind You of Anything? Rousing Speech Wretched Hive Extremely Short Timespan Dirty Cop Shoot the Shaggy Dog Adult Fear Straight Gay Throwing Your Sword Always Works Fourth Date Marriage Shown Their Work The Mole Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dogged Nice Guy Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Villainous Breakdown Anti-Villain Older Than They Look Brick Joke Beauty Is Never Tarnished Kubrick Stare It's All About Me Damsel in Distress Not So Different Skewed Priorities Shower Scene Homage Word of God Does Not Like Shoes Death by Sex Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Historical In-Joke Super Strength Not Using the "Z" Word Implacable Man Unresolved Sexual Tension Pimped-Out Dress The Dog Bites Back Slasher Smile Eagleland Cloudcuckoolander Expository Hairstyle Change You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Bad "Bad Acting" Abhorrent Admirer Crapsack World Imagine Spot Call-Forward Creator Cameo Cat Scare Mythology Gag I Need a Freaking Drink Bolivian Army Ending Eyepatch of Power The Power of Love Rape as Drama Get Out! Abusive Parents Dirty Coward Retcon Adaptational Villainy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Call-Back Stealth Pun Sole Survivor Face–Heel Turn Deus ex Machina Eiffel Tower Effect Affectionate Parody The Oner Politically Incorrect Villain Cain and Abel You Have Failed Me Adapted Out For the Evulz Parental Substitute Man on Fire Small Name, Big Ego An Axe to Grind Fat Bastard Captain Obvious More Dakka Would Hit a Girl Sequel Escalation Children Are Innocent Sealed Evil in a Can The Lancer Foregone Conclusion Setting Update Facial Horror And the Adventure Continues Hollywood Law Spared by the Adaptation Pretty in Mink Adorkable Famous Last Words Twist Ending Ascended Extra Death Glare Playing Gertrude Cool Car Everyone Has Standards Running Gag Documentary Darkest Hour The Bully Bare Your Midriff Love Triangle Fan Disservice Cluster F-Bomb The Vamp "Awesome McCool" Name Cowboy Cop Shirtless Scene Bullying a Dragon Dual Wielding Only One Name Our Zombies Are Different Redshirt Army Suddenly SHOUTING! Wham Shot Only Sane Man Show Within a Show Chiaroscuro Meet Cute Diabolus ex Machina Demonic Possession Red Shirt Irony Vacation Films Wrong Genre Savvy Determinator aka: The Determinator Action Girl Pretty Little Headshots The '90s