Tropescilloscope: Fun with Acronyms

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