Tropescilloscope: Crapsack World

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