Tropescilloscope: Eagleland

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