Tropescilloscope: Fantastic Racism

Prejudice based on a difference in species. In other words, racism in fiction. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Cool Shades Genre Throwback Ship Tease Rule of Funny Interrupted Suicide Say My Name Death by Irony Did Not Get the Girl Femme Fatale Oh, Crap! Auto Erotica Even Evil Has Standards Sinister Minister Worthy Opponent Meaningful Background Event Big Fancy House Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Ghost Dogged Nice Guy Car Fu Sir Swears-a-Lot Blackmail Creepy Child Martial Arts Movie Brainless Beauty Unusually Uninteresting Sight Advertised Extra Chase Scene Silence Is Golden Adorkable O.O.C. Is Serious Business Greater-Scope Villain Guile Hero Foregone Conclusion The Ditz "Shaggy Dog" Story Names to Run Away from Really Fast Well-Intentioned Extremist Mama Bear Bare Your Midriff Berserk Button Big Brother Instinct Blood Knight Noodle Incident Twist Ending Rewatch Bonus Parental Neglect Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bound and Gagged Reality Ensues Fainting Epic Fail Annoying Younger Sibling Daylight Horror Parental Incest Action Prologue Mr. Fanservice From Nobody to Nightmare Deadpan Snarker Face–Heel Turn Red Oni, Blue Oni Anyone Can Die Recycled IN SPACE! The Lost Lenore Fate Worse than Death Russian Films Manly Tears Mighty Whitey Light Is Not Good In Name Only Intrepid Reporter Mythology Gag Once More, with Clarity! 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Last-Name Basis Documentary Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Framing Device Eagleland Dramedy Lampshade Hanging All There in the Manual Retcon Dutch Angle Canadian Movies Deus ex Machina Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Mexican Standoff Exact Words Music Stories Age Lift Toplessness from the Back Roaring Rampage of Revenge And I Must Scream Darkest Hour Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Hooker with a Heart of Gold Undying Loyalty Politically Incorrect Villain Determinator Serious Business Deliberately Monochrome Empathic Environment Hoist by His Own Petard Fake Shemp Get Out! Butt-Monkey Immune to Bullets Police are Useless La Résistance Sci-Fi Horror Gold Digger Knight Templar Punch-Clock Villain Captain Obvious Curb-Stomp Battle Badass Grandpa Time Skip Cool Old Lady He Who Fights Monsters Would Hit a Girl Calling the Old Man Out You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Determinator aka: The Determinator Dirty Cop Getting Crap Past the Radar Public Domain Feature Films Revenge Apocalypse How Neck Lift Historical In-Joke Tranquil Fury Stealth Hi/Bye Dissonant Serenity Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Japanese Films Psychopathic Manchild Ax-Crazy Insistent Terminology Camera Abuse The Stinger Dressing as the Enemy Self-Deprecation Straight Gay Badass Longcoat Film Noir Kids Are Cruel The Mole Anti-Hero For Want of a Nail Does This Remind You of Anything? B-Movie Gone Horribly Right Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Combat Pragmatist Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The End... Or Is It? Author Appeal Stylistic Suck Faux Affably Evil Television Movie Index Shower Scene Five-Man Band Not What It Looks Like Meet Cute Redshirt Army As Himself Shown Their Work Credits Gag Paper-Thin Disguise Nice Hat Needs Wiki Magic Love An Arm and a Leg Beauty Is Never Tarnished Here We Go Again! The '60s Author Avatar Motor Mouth Those Two Bad Guys Superhero Evil vs. Evil Male Frontal Nudity Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Title Drop Sexy Discretion Shot Pragmatic Adaptation Developing Doomed Characters Meaningful Name folderlabel Red Eyes, Take Warning Visual Pun Death by Sex Catapult Nightmare Peek-a-Boo Corpse Spared by the Adaptation Real Life Creative Closing Credits Artistic License – Military Darker and Edgier Slasher Movie Early-Bird Cameo Action Girl Leaning on the Fourth Wall Adult Fear Chewing the Scenery Death Seeker Adaptation Dye-Job Naked People Are Funny Parental Substitute The Bully Intergenerational Friendship More Dakka There Is No Kill Like Overkill Eureka Moment Dramatic Irony Screw This, I'm Outta Here! One-Man Army Horror Films "Awesome McCool" Name Improbable Weapon User Neck Snap Up to Eleven Spell My Name with an "S" Covers Always Lie Chiaroscuro Happily Married Small Name, Big Ego Reckless Gun Usage Punctuated! For! Emphasis! MacGuffin Artistic License – Geography The Great Depression Line-of-Sight Name Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Anguished Declaration of Love I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Pragmatic Villainy Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Funny Background Event What the Hell, Hero? A.I. Is a Crapshoot Bald of Evil Papa Wolf Domestic Abuse Blatant Lies Villain Opening Scene Death Glare The Dragon Brother–Sister Incest Armor-Piercing Question Contrived Coincidence Ambiguous Disorder Bottomless Magazines Horror Comedy How We Got Here Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Smart Guy Black and Gray Morality Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Translation Convention Slashed Throat Smoking Is Cool Death by Adaptation Homage Major Injury Underreaction Sacrificial Lion Affably Evil Shipper on Deck Together in Death Dying Moment of Awesome Police Brutality Ass Shove Early Installment Weirdness Loophole Abuse Celebrity Paradox Didn't Think This Through The Casanova Dark Reprise Artistic License – Law Adaptational Heroism Comically Missing the Point Award-Bait Song Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Irony Big Bad Properly Paranoid Index of Film Westerns Made of Explodium Fat Bastard Unusual Euphemism Loads and Loads of Characters Ripped from the Headlines Too Dumb to Live A God Am I Rule of Cool Bait-and-Switch Taking You with Me Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Big Applesauce Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Red Shirt Romantic Comedy Everyone Has Standards Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Card-Carrying Villain Bad "Bad Acting" Gender Flip Rated M for Manly Mind Screw Fatal Family Photo Throwing Your Sword Always Works Rich Bitch The Vamp Hong Kong Films Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Face Death with Dignity You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Funny Foreigner Product Placement Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Stepford Smiler Extreme Doormat Call-Forward Offscreen Moment of Awesome It Will Never Catch On Anti-Villain Same Language Dub Hollywood Darkness Decoy Protagonist Would Hurt a Child Four-Temperament Ensemble The Film of the Book Offscreen Teleportation War Is Hell Red Herring Deconstruction I Did What I Had to Do Outrun the Fireball Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Extremely Short Timespan Your Cheating Heart Pay Evil unto Evil Heroic Sacrifice Pet the Dog No-Sell Freudian Excuse Chekhov's Skill Bunny-Ears Lawyer Badass in a Nice Suit An Axe to Grind Heterosexual Life-Partners Defiant to the End Meaningful Echo Cruel and Unusual Death Take a Third Option Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Man on Fire Not So Above It All Fanservice Faking the Dead The '80s