Tropescilloscope: Dull Surprise

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