Tropescilloscope: Christmas Movies Index

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