Tropescilloscope: German Films

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