Tropescilloscope: Exact Words

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