Tropescilloscope: Fun with Acronyms

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