Tropescilloscope: Epic Movie

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