Tropescilloscope: Deliberately Monochrome

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