Tropescilloscope: Dull Surprise

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