Tropescilloscope: Crapsack World

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