Tropescilloscope: Creator Cameo

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