Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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