Tropescilloscope: German Films

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