Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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