Tropescilloscope: Fainting

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