Tropescilloscope: Exact Words

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