Tropescilloscope: Daylight Horror

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