Tropescilloscope: Christmas Movies Index

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