Tropescilloscope: Documentary

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