Tropescilloscope: Failed a Spot Check

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