Tropescilloscope: German Films

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