Tropescilloscope: Homage

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