Tropescilloscope: Determinator

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