Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Law

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