Tropescilloscope: Daylight Horror

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