Tropescilloscope: Frame-Up

Making an innocent look guilty. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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