Tropescilloscope: Hong Kong Films

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