Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Law

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