Tropescilloscope: Epic Movie

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