Tropescilloscope: Failed a Spot Check

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