Tropescilloscope: Hidden Depths

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