Tropescilloscope: Dull Surprise

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