Tropescilloscope: Hong Kong Films

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