Tropescilloscope: Creator Cameo

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