Tropescilloscope: Film Noir Index

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