Tropescilloscope: Determinator

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