Tropescilloscope: Crazy-Prepared

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