Tropescilloscope: Historical In-Joke

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