Tropescilloscope: Daylight Horror

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