Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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