Tropescilloscope: Distracted by the Sexy

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