Tropescilloscope: Historical In-Joke

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