Tropescilloscope: Eagleland

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