Tropescilloscope: Eiffel Tower Effect

Sometimes the signature landmark is all you need to establish what location you're depicting. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Death by Sex Abusive Parents Vitriolic Best Buds Spanner in the Works Drill Sergeant Nasty Final Girl Line-of-Sight Name Whole Plot Reference Oh, Crap! Action Prologue Punch-Clock Villain Camp Gay Names to Run Away from Really Fast Pre-Mortem One-Liner Zombie Stories Curb-Stomp Battle Last-Name Basis Jitter Cam Dirty Old Man Fatal Family Photo Ungrateful Bastard Only in It for the Money Nice Hat Corrupt Corporate Executive Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Manly Tears Diabolus ex Machina Air-Vent Passageway '80s Hair Due to the Dead Idiot Ball This Is Gonna Suck Determinator Time Skip Martial Arts Movie Your Cheating Heart He Who Fights Monsters Adaptational Badass Small Name, Big Ego Villain Opening Scene Villain Ball Creepy Child Humiliation Conga Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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They Really Do Love Each Other As Himself Double Entendre Television Movie Index Cool Shades Deliberately Monochrome Scenery Porn Spared by the Adaptation Henpecked Husband Parental Substitute Anti-Villain Shell-Shocked Veteran Cat Scare Bi the Way Creative Closing Credits Bowdlerise The '90s Freudian Excuse Crazy Jealous Guy Truth in Television Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor French Films Fake Shemp Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Intrepid Reporter Broken Aesop Heel Realization Bury Your Gays Kids Are Cruel Adaptation Dye-Job Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Camera Abuse Hollywood Law Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Agony of the Feet Parental Incest Be Careful What You Wish For Fun with Acronyms "Awesome McCool" Name Jerkass Has a Point Trailers Always Spoil Black Comedy Parental Neglect Ship Tease Motor Mouth Suspiciously Specific Denial Captain Ersatz Country Matters Moment Killer Rasputinian Death Stock Footage Animated Credits Opening Bald of Evil Disney Death Death by Irony Needs Wiki Magic Love Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Logo Joke Sassy Black Woman Blackmail Hypocritical Humor Pimped-Out Dress Animal Motifs Ironic Echo Adults Are Useless Red Oni, Blue Oni Back from the Dead Mugging the Monster Same Language Dub Fish out of Water Jerk with a Heart of Gold Gainax Ending Drowning My Sorrows Ass Shove Heterosexual Life-Partners Fanservice Extra Brutal Honesty As You Know Skewed Priorities Men Are the Expendable Gender The '70s Race Lift The Voiceless Serial Killer The Ghost Epic Movie Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Cruel and Unusual Death Ambiguously Gay Would Hit a Girl Stuff Blowing Up Does Not Like Shoes Setting Update Anachronism Stew Bring My Brown Pants Foregone Conclusion Index of Film Westerns Funny Foreigner Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil What You Are in the Dark Extreme Doormat Cowboy Cop Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Epic Fail Big Bad Book-Ends Comically Missing the Point Bullying a Dragon Morality Pet Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Reckless Gun Usage Bar Brawl Chekhov's Gunman Shown Their Work Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Beta Couple Improvised Weapon Fourth Date Marriage Those Two Guys The Place You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Is a Crapshoot Mercy Kill The Hero Ripped from the Headlines Badass Boast Neck Snap Black Best Friend Disguised in Drag Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Improbable Aiming Skills Depraved Bisexual Love Triangle I'm a Humanitarian Gilligan Cut Tempting Fate Artistic License – Biology Faux Affably Evil Bottomless Magazines Overly Long Gag Destination Defenestration A Father to His Men The Mole Friend to All Children Market-Based Title Fingore Broken Bird Beard of Evil The Alleged Car The Un-Reveal Obviously Evil Instant Death Bullet Cloudcuckoolander Arranged Marriage Tranquil Fury Department of Redundancy Department Big-Bad Ensemble Didn't Think This Through Dirty Coward Arch-Enemy Card-Carrying Villain Sequel Escalation Wrong Genre Savvy Yandere Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Would Hurt a Child Shipper on Deck Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Neck Lift Rewatch Bonus Demoted to Extra Expy Bland-Name Product Stalker with a Crush Rule of Symbolism Here We Go Again! Amoral Attorney Sir Swears-a-Lot Crapsack World "The Reason You Suck" Speech All Men Are Perverts Military and Warfare Films Video Credits The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Italian Films Determinator aka: The Determinator Pyrrhic Victory Police Brutality Asshole Victim Awesome, but Impractical The Lancer The X of Y Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Adaptational Villainy Australian Movies Real Life Writes the Plot Knight Templar Getting Crap Past the Radar Meet Cute Bavarian Fire Drill Big Bad Duumvirate Empathic Environment Eagleland Honor Before Reason One Steve Limit Made of Explodium Canon Foreigner Smug Snake Bad Boss Death by Adaptation Soundtrack Dissonance Composite Character Continuity Nod Not Even Bothering with the Accent Cluster F-Bomb Did Not Get the Girl Big "NO!" Action Genre Does This Remind You of Anything? Took a Level in Jerkass Silence Is Golden And I Must Scream Light Is Not Good Music Stories British Films Dying Moment of Awesome Accidental Misnaming Mad Scientist Frame-Up Authority Equals Asskicking Training Montage Well-Intentioned Extremist Almost Kiss The '50s Animal Title Index Award-Bait Song As Long as It Sounds Foreign For the Evulz Never Trust a Trailer Humans Are Bastards Canadian Movies Insult Backfire Better to Die than Be Killed Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Cool Old Guy Fate Worse than Death Flipping the Bird The End... Or Is It? It Will Never Catch On Major Injury Underreaction Make It Look Like an Accident Manchild Rich Bitch Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Hoist by His Own Petard Central Theme Mythology Gag Brainless Beauty Red Herring Russian Films Antagonist Title Novelization Pay Evil unto Evil He Knows Too Much Pet the Dog Our Zombies Are Different Deal with the Devil A God Am I Retcon Together in Death Reality Ensues An Arm and a Leg Bolivian Army Ending Big Eater Slap-Slap-Kiss Obfuscating Stupidity Hong Kong Films The Dragon Evil Sounds Deep Non-Indicative Name Totally Radical Kick the Dog Hooker with a Heart of Gold Daylight Horror Fatal Flaw Gender Flip Red Eyes, Take Warning Film Noir Reasonable Authority Figure Victoria's Secret Compartment Fanservice The Smurfette Principle Sacrificial Lion Take a Third Option Bare Your Midriff Very Loosely Based on a True Story Even Evil Has Standards Fire-Forged Friends Re-Cut Slasher Smile Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Badass Bookworm Genre Savvy Bittersweet Ending Dutch Angle Toplessness from the Back Translation Convention Pragmatic Adaptation Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Maybe Ever After Vomit Discretion Shot Developing Doomed Characters One-Man Army Match Cut Heroes Want Redheads Dwindling Party Artistic License – Law Madness Mantra Dumb Blonde Covers Always Lie What Happened to the Mouse? Beware the Nice Ones Intergenerational Friendship My Greatest Failure Stylistic Suck Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Ace Pragmatic Villainy Sinister Minister Manic Pixie Dream Girl Bond Villain Stupidity Only One Name Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Is Serious Business Word of God Death of a Child Happily Married Product Placement Dies Wide Open B-Movie Age Lift Body Horror Armor-Piercing Question Adaptation Distillation Bloodless Carnage Big Fancy House Horror Films Fan Disservice Vacation Films Loophole Abuse Blatant Lies Defiant to the End Badass Longcoat Plucky Comic Relief Vampire Fiction Driven to Suicide Crazy-Prepared After the End No Antagonist Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Lighter and Softer Shower Scene Nice Guy Four-Temperament Ensemble German Films Closed Circle Calling the Old Man Out Death Glare Title Drop Precision F-Strike No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Gorn Not So Above It All N-Word Privileges The Great Depression Hero of Another Story Artistic License – Military folderlabel Romantic Comedy No Celebrities Were Harmed Anguished Declaration of Love Eureka Moment A Minor Kidroduction Recycled IN SPACE! Bilingual Bonus Adaptation Expansion Boom, Headshot! Wham Line Unusually Uninteresting Sight Smoking Is Cool BFG Artistic License – Geography Implacable Man Spiritual Successor Villain with Good Publicity Rated M for Manly Informed Ability Bloodier and Gorier Take That! No Name Given Chekhov's Skill Artistic License – Physics Blood from the Mouth Evil Is Petty Insistent Terminology Dressing as the Enemy The Dreaded One-Word Title Once More, with Clarity! 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