Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Law

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