Tropescilloscope: Heroic BSoD

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