Tropescilloscope: Exactly What It Says on the Tin

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