Tropescilloscope: Fish out of Water

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