Tropescilloscope: Hidden Depths

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