Tropescilloscope: Dirty Old Man

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