Tropescilloscope: French Films

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