Tropescilloscope: French Films

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