Tropescilloscope: German Films

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