Tropescilloscope: Fun with Acronyms

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