Tropescilloscope: Dull Surprise

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