Tropescilloscope: Exact Words

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