Tropescilloscope: French Films

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