Tropescilloscope: Documentary

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