Tropescilloscope: Eagleland

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