Tropescilloscope: Deconstruction

Analyzing a trope to expose its realistic assumptions, flaws, consequences and/or origins. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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