Tropescilloscope: Funny Background Event

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