Tropescilloscope: Failed a Spot Check

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