Tropescilloscope: Gilligan Cut

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