Tropescilloscope: Covers Always Lie

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