Tropescilloscope: Fish out of Water

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