Tropescilloscope: Documentary

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