Tropescilloscope: Exact Words

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