Tropescilloscope: Fun with Acronyms

Acronym spells something funny or significant. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Our Vampires Are Different Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Arranged Marriage An Arm and a Leg Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene MacGuffin Stepford Smiler The Chick All Just a Dream Bar Brawl Crazy-Prepared Dies Wide Open Serious Business The Ace Mercy Kill Let's Get Dangerous! Offscreen Teleportation Star-Crossed Lovers Very Loosely Based on a True Story Manic Pixie Dream Girl Face–Heel Turn Gold Digger Every Car Is a Pinto Naïve Newcomer Retcon Bad Boss Film Noir Index True Companions A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Voiceless Vomit Discretion Shot Anti-Villain Adaptation Name Change Composite Character La Résistance Laughing Mad Greater-Scope Villain Downer Ending The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite '80s Hair Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Action Genre Fake Shemp Epic Movie Not So Stoic No-Sell My Greatest Failure My God, What Have I Done? 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Epilogue Karmic Death Everyone Has Standards Amusing Injuries Roaring Rampage of Revenge Crazy Jealous Guy Developing Doomed Characters Four-Temperament Ensemble Unusually Uninteresting Sight Dull Surprise Adaptation Dye-Job Narrator Never My Fault Bavarian Fire Drill Bloodless Carnage Stylistic Suck Married to the Job Domestic Abuse Guile Hero Animal Title Index Protagonist Title Hollywood Darkness The Musical Morality Pet Kick the Dog Mad Scientist Cain and Abel Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Revenge I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Karma Houdini Film Series I Need a Freaking Drink Lighter and Softer Silent Movie Foregone Conclusion Shoot the Shaggy Dog Italian Films Bait-and-Switch Cassandra Truth The Lost Lenore Dark Is Not Evil Wham Line Parental Incest Meaningful Name Insistent Terminology Here We Go Again! 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The '70s Manchild Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Adaptation Distillation Badass Normal The Brute Award-Bait Song Title Drop Drives Like Crazy Trailers Always Spoil Ass Shove A Date with Rosie Palms Actually Pretty Funny Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Pretty Little Headshots Unresolved Sexual Tension Daylight Horror Ambiguously Gay A God Am I Villainous Breakdown Becoming the Mask Death by Adaptation Freudian Excuse Offscreen Moment of Awesome Half the Man He Used to Be Mugging the Monster Bland-Name Product Badass in a Nice Suit Nice Hat Punny Name Calling the Old Man Out Large Ham The Reveal Jerk with a Heart of Gold Bury Your Gays Bi the Way No Antagonist Based on a True Story There Is No Kill Like Overkill Race Lift Soft Glass Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Dramatic Gun Cock Horror Comedy Dramatic Irony Small Name, Big Ego Abusive Parents Redshirt Army Bittersweet Ending Arc Words Time Skip Even Evil Has Standards Distracted by the Sexy Canon Foreigner Hate Sink Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" BFG The Big Guy Villain Protagonist NO INDOOR VOICE Brother–Sister Incest Police are Useless Love at First Sight Evil vs. Evil Make It Look Like an Accident Rule of Funny Russian Films Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Catch-Phrase Bunny-Ears Lawyer "Awesome McCool" Name Fantasy Films Stalker with a Crush Animated Credits Opening Stock Footage Music Stories Kill It with Fire Kubrick Stare As the Good Book Says... Smug Snake Retirony Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Chessmaster Agony of the Feet Properly Paranoid Asshole Victim How We Got Here Eureka Moment Empathic Environment Visual Pun He Knows Too Much Big-Bad Ensemble Affably Evil Posthumous Character Homage Chewing the Scenery Big Eater Wretched Hive Fan Disservice Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Neck Snap Well-Intentioned Extremist Darker and Edgier Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Jitter Cam Suspiciously Specific Denial Love Triangle An Aesop The Stinger Dark and Troubled Past Slasher Movie Action Survivor Playing Gertrude German Films Danny Peary Cult Movies List Anti-Hero Ghost Fiction Foil Sacrificial Lion And the Adventure Continues Amoral Attorney All Girls Want Bad Boys Superhero Rewatch Bonus Evil Brit Neck Lift Drugs Are Bad Coming-of-Age Story Parental Substitute Card-Carrying Villain Creative Closing Credits Slashed Throat Poor Communication Kills Adaptational Villainy An Axe to Grind Heroic Sacrifice As You Know Fun with Acronyms My Beloved Smother Translation Convention Irony Evil Sounds Deep Blatant Lies Good Is Not Nice The Mole Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The End... Or Is It? 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The Load Auto Erotica Our Zombies Are Different Mythology Gag It Will Never Catch On Mystery and Detective Films Scenery Porn Spell My Name with an "S" Only Known by Their Nickname Evil Is Hammy Artistic License – Biology Funny Background Event Ascended Extra She's Got Legs Red Shirt One-Word Title Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Moment Killer French Films Dogged Nice Guy Loads and Loads of Characters Flashback Scare Chord The Great Depression Imagine Spot Cruel and Unusual Death The Dog Bites Back Villain Song Dual Wielding Guns Akimbo Novelization Action Prologue Random Events Plot Deal with the Devil In the Back Artistic License – Military Jerkass The X of Y Eye Scream Non-Indicative Name Take a Third Option The Power of Love Riddle for the Ages Abhorrent Admirer Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Death of a Child Aluminum Christmas Trees Badass Grandpa Mistaken for Gay Shell-Shocked Veteran Babies Ever After Decoy Protagonist Bolivian Army Ending Extreme Doormat The Ghost Big Bad Pre-Mortem One-Liner Missing Mom Henpecked Husband Adaptational Heroism Demonic Possession "The Reason You Suck" Speech Intrepid Reporter Pimped-Out Dress Manipulative Bastard Curb-Stomp Battle Interrupted Suicide Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Credits Gag Awesome, but Impractical Take That! Genre Throwback Rated M for Manly Pay Evil unto Evil Big Applesauce Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Dressing as the Enemy Unreliable Narrator Adorkable Madness Mantra Spiritual Successor Deus ex Machina Fainting Extremely Short Timespan Villain Ball Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Hoist by His Own Petard Woman Scorned Mood Whiplash Faux Affably Evil Jump Scare As Himself Dropped a Bridge on Him Alpha Bitch Villain Opening Scene Genre Savvy For the Evulz Death by Irony I Did What I Had to Do Have a Gay Old Time Evil Counterpart Mama Bear Badass Boast Frame-Up Smoking Is Cool Disproportionate Retribution Nice Guy Combat Pragmatist Ironic Echo Tap on the Head "Well Done, Son!" 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Sequel Escalation Body Horror Dumb Blonde Papa Wolf Artistic License – Gun Safety Sealed Evil in a Can Martial Arts Movie Armor-Piercing Question Disney Death Pet the Dog Stealth Hi/Bye Heroic BSoD Scary Black Man Leitmotif Pyrrhic Victory Ambiguous Ending The Remake Together in Death Hope Spot The Alcoholic Slap-Slap-Kiss Science Fiction Films The Smart Guy Evil-Detecting Dog Room Full of Crazy Brutal Honesty All for Nothing As Long as It Sounds Foreign From Nobody to Nightmare Fourth Date Marriage The Casanova Blackmail Yandere You Have Failed Me Ominous Latin Chanting The Stoner Establishing Character Moment Meet Cute Fiery Redhead Animal Motifs Chekhov's Skill Bilingual Bonus Big Bad Duumvirate Taking the Bullet Historical Hero Upgrade Peek-a-Boo Corpse Japanese Films Brick Joke N-Word Privileges Big Brother Instinct Only in It for the Money Australian Movies Instant Death Bullet Beta Couple Punch-Clock Villain Bond One-Liner Gratuitous English Outrun the Fireball Same Language Dub Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Dissonant Serenity Improbable Aiming Skills One Steve Limit Call-Forward Sole Survivor Creepy Child Wicked Cultured Paper-Thin Disguise Adults Are Useless Meaningful Echo Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Obviously Evil And Starring Darkest Hour Rousing Speech Token Minority Took a Level in Badass The Dragon Beauty Is Never Tarnished Be Careful What You Wish For Big "NO!" Beware the Nice Ones Disguised in Drag Say My Name Grievous Bottley Harm British Films Line-of-Sight Name Badass Bookworm Implacable Man Camera Abuse Exactly What It Says on the Tin Bullying a Dragon Demoted to Extra Re-Cut Blood from the Mouth Adapted Out Historical-Domain Character It's Personal Precision F-Strike Real Life Arch-Enemy Unspoken Plan Guarantee Product Placement Actor Allusion Belligerent Sexual Tension Early-Bird Cameo Face Death with Dignity Intergenerational Friendship Male Frontal Nudity Sadistic Choice Kill 'em All Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Unusual Euphemism All Men Are Perverts Anachronism Stew From Bad to Worse The Alleged Car Broken Pedestal Anguished Declaration of Love Red Oni, Blue Oni Shut Up, Hannibal! Evil Plan Covers Always Lie Not Even Bothering with the Accent Toplessness from the Back Show Within a Show Documentary Deliberate Values Dissonance Heterosexual Life-Partners Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Older Than They Look You Killed My Father Sassy Black Woman Attempted Rape Curse Cut Short Continuity Nod Costume Porn Grey and Gray Morality Word of God Totally Radical Improbable Weapon User Cluster F-Bomb Daddy's Girl Bad "Bad Acting" Really Gets Around I Have Your Wife Red Eyes, Take Warning Does This Remind You of Anything? Self-Deprecation Creator Cameo Would Hit a Girl Ship Tease In Name Only Not Quite Dead Names to Run Away from Really Fast Mexican Standoff Broken Aesop No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Early Installment Weirdness Jerk Jock Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Rule of Cool All There in the Manual Noodle Incident Cool Old Lady Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Adaptational Attractiveness Heroes Want Redheads Beard of Evil Up to Eleven Break the Haughty Video Credits Five-Man Band The '90s Woman in White Taking You with Me The Hero Dies Evil Laugh Dying Moment of Awesome Reasonable Authority Figure Immune to Bullets Defiant to the End More Dakka Mooks Eagleland Off with His Head! Historical In-Joke Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies 20 Minutes into the Future Stuff Blowing Up Black Dude Dies First Dutch Angle Air-Vent Passageway Bond Villain Stupidity Cloudcuckoolander Pragmatic Villainy Earn Your Happy Ending War Is Hell Get Out! Stealth Pun Vitriolic Best Buds