Tropescilloscope: German Films

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