Tropescilloscope: Film Series

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