Tropescilloscope: Film Series

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