Tropescilloscope: Disney Death

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