Tropescilloscope: Film Series

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