Tropescilloscope: Eagleland

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