Tropescilloscope: Eureka Moment

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