Tropescilloscope: Film Noir Index

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