Tropescilloscope: Gratuitous English

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