Tropescilloscope: Fish out of Water

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