Tropescilloscope: Fish out of Water

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