Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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