Tropescilloscope: Does This Remind You of Anything?

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