Tropescilloscope: Film Noir Index

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