Tropescilloscope: Framing Device

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