Tropescilloscope: Genre Savvy

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