Tropescilloscope: From Bad to Worse

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