Tropescilloscope: Deconstruction

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

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