Tropescilloscope: Creator Cameo

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