Tropescilloscope: Happily Married

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