Tropescilloscope: Dull Surprise

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