Tropescilloscope: Hong Kong Films

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