Tropescilloscope: Dark and Troubled Past

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