Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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