Tropescilloscope: French Films

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