Tropescilloscope: Demoted to Extra

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