Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Law

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