Tropescilloscope: Film Noir Index

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