Tropescilloscope: Fun with Acronyms

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