Tropescilloscope: Film Noir Index

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