Tropescilloscope: Epic Movie

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