Tropescilloscope: Genre Savvy

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