Tropescilloscope: Genre Savvy

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