Tropescilloscope: Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"

Only known by their profession, or some other odd word. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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