Tropescilloscope: Green-Eyed Monster

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