Tropescilloscope: Dull Surprise

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