Tropescilloscope: Failed a Spot Check

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