Tropescilloscope: Exact Words

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