Tropescilloscope: Genre Savvy

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