Tropescilloscope: Film Series

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