Tropescilloscope: Creator Cameo

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