Tropescilloscope: Framing Device

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