Tropescilloscope: From Bad to Worse

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