Tropescilloscope: Historical In-Joke

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