Tropescilloscope: Christmas Movies Index

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