Tropescilloscope: Failed a Spot Check

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