Tropescilloscope: Christmas Movies Index

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