Tropescilloscope: Exactly What It Says on the Tin

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