Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Law

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