Tropescilloscope: Flipping the Bird

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

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Hate Sink Shoot the Shaggy Dog Documentary And I Must Scream Historical In-Joke Everyone Has Standards All Men Are Perverts Jump Scare Decoy Protagonist You Have Failed Me Novelization Skewed Priorities Spiritual Successor Cold-Blooded Torture Manic Pixie Dream Girl Bald of Evil Mad Scientist Death by Irony Mistaken for Gay Plucky Comic Relief Creepy Child Despair Event Horizon Composite Character All There in the Manual Romantic False Lead Punch-Clock Villain Evil Cannot Comprehend Good No OSHA Compliance As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Remake The '60s Light Is Not Good Due to the Dead Abusive Parents Handicapped Badass "The Reason You Suck" Speech Funny Foreigner Star-Crossed Lovers Dark Action Girl Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Black Comedy Celebrity Paradox Leave the Camera Running Ominous Latin Chanting He Who Fights Monsters Freudian Excuse My Beloved Smother Jerkass Has a Point Parental Abandonment Villain Opening Scene Those Wacky Nazis Authority Equals Asskicking Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Market-Based Title Boom, Headshot! 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Fantasy Films Pre-Mortem One-Liner Face–Heel Turn Historical-Domain Character Karma Houdini An Arm and a Leg Red Shirt Badass Grandpa Happily Married Determinator aka: The Determinator He Knows Too Much Needs Wiki Magic Love Intergenerational Friendship Hair-Trigger Temper Combat Pragmatist Curse Cut Short Fanservice Extra Major Injury Underreaction Driven to Suicide Improbable Weapon User Malevolent Masked Men No Ending Historical Hero Upgrade Adaptational Attractiveness Ascended Extra Horror Comedy Take a Third Option Film Series No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Bad Boss Adult Fear Adults Are Useless Broken Bird Kill 'em All Bond One-Liner Pragmatic Adaptation Made of Explodium Fun with Acronyms Obfuscating Stupidity The Dog Bites Back Small Name, Big Ego Black Best Friend Damsel in Distress Reasonable Authority Figure folderlabel Chiaroscuro Woman in White Paper-Thin Disguise Batman Gambit Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? A.I. Is a Crapshoot Adaptational Badass The Stoic Wrong Genre Savvy Tap on the Head The Oner Friend to All Children For the Evulz Left the Background Music On The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Final Girl Affectionate Parody Wretched Hive Every Car Is a Pinto Jerk Jock Nice Hat Training Montage Exactly What It Says on the Tin Anachronism Stew Extreme Doormat Our Zombies Are Different Artistic License – Physics She's Got Legs As Himself Television Movie Index The End... Or Is It? Title Drop Loads and Loads of Characters Would Hurt a Child In the Back NO INDOOR VOICE Stealth Hi/Bye Hero of Another Story Closed Circle Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Scary Black Man Show Within a Show Alpha Bitch The Cameo Alliterative Name Woman Scorned Horror Films Refuge in Audacity Psychological Thriller Posthumous Character Children Are Innocent Police are Useless No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Black and Gray Morality What You Are in the Dark Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Redshirt Army Loophole Abuse It's All About Me Disproportionate Retribution Diabolus ex Machina Exact Words Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Dreaded The Hero Dies Distracted by the Sexy Chewing the Scenery Have a Gay Old Time Corpsing Disappeared Dad The Cavalry Gory Discretion Shot Token Minority What Happened to the Mouse? Mugging the Monster Our Vampires Are Different Groin Attack Sequel Escalation Precision F-Strike Bait-and-Switch Imagine Spot Department of Redundancy Department Real Life Writes the Plot Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Atoner Killed Mid-Sentence Mama Bear Demoted to Extra Fan Disservice Soft Glass German Films Big Bad Lock and Load Montage Only Sane Man Extremely Short Timespan Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Canadian Movies Man on Fire Butt-Monkey Naked People Are Funny Double Entendre Wicked Cultured Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Red Herring The Voiceless Evil-Detecting Dog Humiliation Conga Parental Substitute The X of Y Reality Ensues Silence Is Golden A God Am I Setting Update Say My Name Drugs Are Bad You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Rape as Drama O.O.C. Is Serious Business Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Actor Allusion Wham Shot Eyepatch of Power Anyone Can Die Drill Sergeant Nasty Dissonant Serenity Arc Words Neck Lift Last-Name Basis Dramatic Irony Would Hit a Girl Fiery Redhead Villain Protagonist Nice Guy The Hero Punny Name Sassy Black Woman Papa Wolf British Films Ambiguous Disorder Love at First Sight The Chessmaster Body Horror Romantic Comedy Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Rule of Cool Thriller Action Girl Never Found the Body Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Up to Eleven Cool Shades Call-Forward Improvised Weapon Fourth Date Marriage A Minor Kidroduction Four-Temperament Ensemble Redemption Equals Death Bowdlerise Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Disguised in Drag Heel–Face Turn Coming-of-Age Story Spiteful Spit Dirty Old Man Only Known by Their Nickname Getting Crap Past the Radar Take That! 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Ripped from the Headlines Darker and Edgier Revenge Villainous Breakdown I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Good Is Not Nice Heel Realization Playing Gertrude Big Bad Duumvirate I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Ambiguously Gay Smug Snake Affably Evil Amoral Attorney Honor Before Reason A Date with Rosie Palms Film Noir Framing Device Black Comedy Rape timeperiod Pyrrhic Victory Fantastic Racism Product Placement Villain Song Sports Stories '80s Hair May–December Romance Insane Troll Logic The Film of the Book No Name Given Idiot Ball Central Theme Based on a True Story Country Matters Cool Car Famous Last Words Your Head A-Splode Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Starscream Bolivian Army Ending Developing Doomed Characters Morality Pet Roaring Rampage of Revenge Naïve Newcomer Deus ex Machina All for Nothing Break the Haughty Offscreen Teleportation Belligerent Sexual Tension Foregone Conclusion Danny Peary Cult Movies List Overly Long Gag Dull Surprise Meet Cute Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Adaptational Heroism Male Frontal Nudity Ass Shove Took a Level in Badass Big-Bad Ensemble Whole Plot Reference Corrupt Corporate Executive A Father to His Men Never My Fault Ship Tease Dirty Coward All Girls Want Bad Boys La Résistance Easily Forgiven This Is Gonna Suck And Starring Japanese Films Hong Kong Films Mind Screw Author Avatar Contrived Coincidence World of Ham Let's Get Dangerous! Random Events Plot Karmic Death Catapult Nightmare Sadistic Choice Serial Killer Grey and Gray Morality Jerk with a Heart of Gold Instant Death Bullet Pretty in Mink Silent Movie Only in It for the Money Flipping the Bird Does This Remind You of Anything? Implacable Man Book-Ends Evil Is Petty Badass Bookworm Deliberate Values Dissonance Sir Swears-a-Lot Pimped-Out Dress Darkest Hour Worthy Opponent The '90s Calling the Old Man Out The Faceless More Dakka Rule of Symbolism The '80s In Name Only Double-Meaning Title Outrun the Fireball Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Eureka Moment Casting Gag Bond Villain Stupidity Mythology Gag Artistic License – Law Adaptation Name Change Dirty Cop Mr. Fanservice Not So Different Poor Communication Kills Immune to Bullets Badass Longcoat Wounded Gazelle Gambit Bittersweet Ending Irony Adaptation Dye-Job Aside Glance Deconstruction Dropped a Bridge on Him Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Captain Obvious Zombie Stories Grievous Bottley Harm I Did What I Had to Do Police Brutality Shown Their Work Bottomless Magazines Fire-Forged Friends Male Gaze Sequel Hook The Load Large Ham Cat Scare Oh, Crap! Bar Brawl Hypocrite Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane French Films Becoming the Mask Soundtrack Dissonance Defrosting Ice Queen Curb-Stomp Battle Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Rewatch Bonus Blood Knight Slasher Movie Madness Mantra Slashed Throat The Dragon Blackmail Manchild Never Trust a Trailer Genre Savvy Slasher Smile Rule of Three The '50s Sexy Discretion Shot Rousing Speech Not What It Looks Like Truth in Television Catch-Phrase Translation Convention Eiffel Tower Effect Slap-Slap-Kiss The Lancer The Sociopath It's Personal Fatal Flaw Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Real Life Dark Is Not Evil Back from the Dead Almost Kiss Crucified Hero Shot Hooker with a Heart of Gold Important Haircut Fate Worse than Death Pay Evil unto Evil Martial Arts Movie Hope Spot Offscreen Moment of Awesome "Awesome McCool" Name Pet the Dog Artistic License – Gun Safety Awesome, but Impractical Sci-Fi Horror Crapsack World Amusing Injuries Actually Pretty Funny Character Development Green-Eyed Monster Bilingual Bonus Ms. Fanservice "Well Done, Son!" 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