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