Tropescilloscope: Eagleland

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