Tropescilloscope: Epic Movie

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