Tropescilloscope: Genre Savvy

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