Tropescilloscope: Eagleland

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