Tropescilloscope: German Films

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