Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Law

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