Tropescilloscope: Film Noir Index

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