Tropescilloscope: Film Noir

A film genre involving detectives, Chiaroscuro lighting, crime, and a 1940-60s setting. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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