Tropescilloscope: French Films

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