Tropescilloscope: Flipping the Bird

Extending the middle finger in irritation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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