Tropescilloscope: Historical In-Joke

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