Tropescilloscope: Hong Kong Films

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