Tropescilloscope: Demoted to Extra

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