Tropescilloscope: Exactly What It Says on the Tin

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