Tropescilloscope: Film Series

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