Tropescilloscope: Genre Savvy

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