Tropescilloscope: Christmas Movies Index

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