Tropescilloscope: Creator Cameo

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