Tropescilloscope: French Films

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