Tropescilloscope: Film Series

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