Tropescilloscope: Film Series

nan (read more at tvtropes.org)

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