Tropescilloscope: Fish out of Water

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