Tropescilloscope: Does This Remind You of Anything?

Something is suggestive of something else other than what it actually is. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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