Tropescilloscope: Crapsack World

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