Tropescilloscope: Homage

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