Tropescilloscope: Epic Movie

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