Tropescilloscope: Creator Cameo

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