Tropescilloscope: Christmas Movies Index

nan (read more at tvtropes.org)

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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