Tropescilloscope: Fun with Acronyms

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