Tropescilloscope: Documentary

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