Tropescilloscope: Documentary

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