Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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