Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Law

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