Tropescilloscope: Covers Always Lie

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