Tropescilloscope: Exactly What It Says on the Tin

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