Tropescilloscope: Homage

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