Tropescilloscope: Fainting

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More Tropes Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Rule of Three Affectionate Parody Affably Evil Our Zombies Are Different Retirony Bland-Name Product Mugging the Monster Action Genre Noodle Incident Military and Warfare Films Drowning My Sorrows Dogged Nice Guy Off-into-the-Distance Ending Red Shirt The Atoner The Mole Call-Back Guns Akimbo The Bully Victoria's Secret Compartment The Un-Reveal Foil Rewatch Bonus Ascended Extra Insane Troll Logic Offscreen Teleportation Corrupt Corporate Executive Villain Protagonist Big Fancy House Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Fiery Redhead Blatant Lies Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Dreaded Abusive Parents Plucky Comic Relief Early Installment Weirdness She Cleans Up Nicely Protagonist Title Woman Scorned Coming-of-Age Story Adaptation Name Change Corpsing Ironic Echo As Long as It Sounds Foreign My Greatest Failure Death by Adaptation Hypocritical Humor Deliberate Values Dissonance Tempting Fate Laughing Mad Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Black Dude Dies First Creepy Child Not So Different Yandere Cold-Blooded Torture Bi the Way Establishing Character Moment Chewing the Scenery Outrun the Fireball Failed a Spot Check Suspiciously Specific Denial Epic Movie Face–Heel Turn Posthumous Character Race Against the Clock Gilligan Cut Camp Gay No-Sell Diabolus ex Machina Evil vs. Evil Dressing as the Enemy Evil Brit And the Adventure Continues Freudian Excuse Artistic License – History Belligerent Sexual Tension Kick the Dog Mistaken for Gay Flashback Sequel Escalation Artistic License – Geography Setting Update Wham Line In the Back Sole Survivor Naked People Are Funny Made of Iron Disney Villain Death Authority Equals Asskicking No OSHA Compliance Flipping the Bird Bond Villain Stupidity There Is No Kill Like Overkill Psychological Thriller Sexy Discretion Shot World of Ham One Steve Limit Properly Paranoid And Starring Punch-Clock Villain Woman in White Double Entendre Anti-Hero Arc Words Sports Stories Your Cheating Heart Superhero Double-Meaning Title Sci-Fi Horror Stealth Pun Sadistic Choice Character Development Retcon Stock Footage Mad Scientist Asshole Victim Costume Porn Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bloody Hilarious Vomit Discretion Shot Eldritch Abomination Put on a Bus Implacable Man German Films Wicked Cultured Kick the Son of a Bitch Silent Movie Bald of Evil A Father to His Men Television Movie Index Catapult Nightmare He Who Fights Monsters Historical Villain Upgrade Due to the Dead Adaptational Heroism Only a Flesh Wound Poor Communication Kills Nice Hat 20 Minutes into the Future Laser-Guided Karma Overprotective Dad Ship Tease Real Life A God Am I Hollywood Darkness Badass Boast Karmic Death Dramedy Every Car Is a Pinto Fish out of Water Fatal Family Photo Scenery Porn Title Drop Dark and Troubled Past Badass in a Nice Suit Cool Guns Mama Bear Sacrificial Lion Psychopathic Manchild Action Survivor Non-Indicative Name Star-Crossed Lovers Novelization Police are Useless Chekhov's Gunman Red Right Hand The Cavalry Deliberately Monochrome Darker and Edgier The Sociopath Red Herring Romantic Comedy Break the Cutie Papa Wolf Dirty Old Man Russian Films Brainless Beauty This Is Gonna Suck Grey and Gray Morality The Ghost NO INDOOR VOICE Does Not Like Shoes Obfuscating Stupidity Did Not Get the Girl O.O.C. 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Deadpan Snarker How We Got Here Market-Based Title Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Death Seeker Adaptational Villainy Psycho for Hire Morality Pet Loophole Abuse Real Life Writes the Plot Brutal Honesty Four-Temperament Ensemble Important Haircut Ghost Fiction Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Didn't Think This Through Artistic License – Military Unresolved Sexual Tension Unusually Uninteresting Sight Comically Missing the Point Interrupted Suicide Match Cut Unusual Euphemism Here We Go Again! 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Music Stories Adaptation Expansion Crucified Hero Shot Serial Killer Auto Erotica Body Horror Slap-Slap-Kiss Death Glare Unspoken Plan Guarantee The X of Y The Lost Lenore Jerk with a Heart of Gold Worthy Opponent Last-Name Basis Accidental Murder Soundtrack Dissonance Anachronism Stew Shipper on Deck Driven to Suicide Neck Snap Hong Kong Films Action Girl Rule of Cool Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Fire-Forged Friends Berserk Button Hope Spot Jerk Jock Mood Whiplash Composite Character Evil-Detecting Dog Mundane Made Awesome As Himself Leave the Camera Running Despair Event Horizon Meaningful Background Event Dies Wide Open Pragmatic Adaptation Light Is Not Good The Faceless Hell Is That Noise BFG Dramatic Irony Greater-Scope Villain Fake Shemp Cat Scare Rape as Drama Bury Your Gays Animal Motifs Together in Death Crapsack World Honor Before Reason The Reveal Totally Radical Gory Discretion Shot Jitter Cam Spared by the Adaptation Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Car Fu Married to the Job Rule of Symbolism Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Ditz Adaptational Attractiveness Alpha Bitch Mighty Whitey Chekhov's Skill Line-of-Sight Name Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Even Evil Has Loved Ones Lampshade Hanging Developing Doomed Characters Creative Closing Credits Spell My Name with an "S" Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Bolivian Army Ending British Films "Well Done, Son!" Guy Epic Fail Disguised in Drag All There in the Manual Reality Ensues Christmas Movies Index Wham Shot Crazy Jealous Guy Easily Forgiven Parental Abandonment Those Wacky Nazis Boom, Headshot! 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Is a Crapshoot Black Comedy Author Avatar Shirtless Scene Determinator aka: The Determinator Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Love at First Sight Riddle for the Ages Shoot the Shaggy Dog Fanservice The Bad Guy Wins Cool Shades Femme Fatale My Beloved Smother Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun What You Are in the Dark Would Hurt a Child The Casanova The Dog Bites Back Defrosting Ice Queen Missing Mom Dull Surprise Manic Pixie Dream Girl Reckless Gun Usage Once More, with Clarity! Australian Movies Toplessness from the Back Getting Crap Past the Radar Neck Lift Sequel Hook Humans Are Bastards Disappeared Dad Black and Gray Morality Insult Backfire The Vamp Drill Sergeant Nasty Freeze-Frame Bonus Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Manly Tears Parental Neglect Italian Films Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The End... Or Is It? 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May–December Romance Adults Are Useless Taking You with Me Needs Wiki Magic Love Arranged Marriage Well-Intentioned Extremist Expository Hairstyle Change Killed Mid-Sentence Humiliation Conga Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Science Fiction Films Historical In-Joke Jerkass Has a Point Meaningful Echo Five-Man Band Gorn Bowdlerise Chekhov's Gun No Antagonist Trailers Always Spoil Jerkass Fun with Acronyms Ominous Latin Chanting Frame-Up Training Montage Stealth Hi/Bye Shell-Shocked Veteran Irony Intrepid Reporter Sassy Black Woman Bar Brawl Ripped from the Headlines Enemy Mine Fantasy Films Breaking the Fourth Wall Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Red Eyes, Take Warning Break the Haughty Your Head A-Splode Creator Cameo Eye Scream All Just a Dream Skewed Priorities Immune to Bullets Not So Above It All Villain Ball Scary Black Man Vampire Fiction Beauty Is Never Tarnished Ass Shove Took a Level in Jerkass More Dakka Historical Hero Upgrade Not Quite Dead Peek-a-Boo Corpse Batman Gambit No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Early-Bird Cameo You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Pragmatic Villainy Maybe Ever After Mercy Kill Abhorrent Admirer After the End Revenge The Oner Heel Realization Room Full of Crazy Shut Up, Hannibal! The Cameo Combat Pragmatist Playing Gertrude