Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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