Tropescilloscope: Daylight Horror

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