Tropescilloscope: German Films

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