Tropescilloscope: Film Noir Index

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