Tropescilloscope: Fish out of Water

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