Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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