Tropescilloscope: Fatal Family Photo

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