Tropescilloscope: Fish out of Water

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