Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Law

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