Tropescilloscope: Christmas Movies Index

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