Tropescilloscope: Heroic BSoD

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