Tropescilloscope: Eureka Moment

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