Tropescilloscope: Hong Kong Films

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