Tropescilloscope: Gratuitous English

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