Tropescilloscope: Eureka Moment

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