Tropescilloscope: Exactly What It Says on the Tin

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