Tropescilloscope: Eagleland

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