Tropescilloscope: Cool Old Lady

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