Tropescilloscope: Eureka Moment

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