Tropescilloscope: Death Glare

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