Tropescilloscope: German Films

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