Tropescilloscope: Frame-Up

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