Tropescilloscope: Christmas Movies Index

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