Tropescilloscope: Film Noir Index

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