Tropescilloscope: Crapsack World

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