Tropescilloscope: French Films

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