Tropescilloscope: Deconstruction

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

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