Tropescilloscope: Covers Always Lie

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