Tropescilloscope: Film Noir Index

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