Tropescilloscope: Film Series

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