Tropescilloscope: German Films

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