Tropescilloscope: Hell Is That Noise

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