Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Law

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