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