Tropescilloscope: Exactly What It Says on the Tin

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