Tropescilloscope: Christmas Movies Index

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