Tropescilloscope: Historical In-Joke

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