Tropescilloscope: Chiaroscuro

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