Tropescilloscope: Genre Savvy

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