Tropescilloscope: Happily Married

A genuinely successful marriage. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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