Tropescilloscope: Eureka Moment

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