Tropescilloscope: Homage

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