Tropescilloscope: Deliberately Monochrome

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