Tropescilloscope: Dull Surprise

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