Tropescilloscope: Exact Words

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