Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Law

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