Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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