Tropescilloscope: French Films

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