Tropescilloscope: German Films

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