Tropescilloscope: Documentary

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