Tropescilloscope: Homage

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