Tropescilloscope: Eureka Moment

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