Tropescilloscope: Fish out of Water

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