Tropescilloscope: Green-Eyed Monster

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