Tropescilloscope: Documentary

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