Tropescilloscope: Documentary

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