Tropescilloscope: Death Glare

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