Tropescilloscope: Disney Death

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