Tropescilloscope: Film Series

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