Tropescilloscope: Homage

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