Tropescilloscope: Film Series

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