Tropescilloscope: Epic Movie

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