Tropescilloscope: Historical In-Joke

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