Tropescilloscope: Exactly What It Says on the Tin

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