Tropescilloscope: Gratuitous English

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