Tropescilloscope: French Films

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