Tropescilloscope: Historical In-Joke

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