Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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