Tropescilloscope: Creator Cameo

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