Tropescilloscope: Exact Words

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