Tropescilloscope: Dull Surprise

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