Tropescilloscope: Fun with Acronyms

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