Tropescilloscope: Framing Device

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