Tropescilloscope: Deconstruction

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

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