Tropescilloscope: Crazy-Prepared

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