Tropescilloscope: Crapsack World

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