Tropescilloscope: French Films

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