Tropescilloscope: Eagleland

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