Tropescilloscope: Hong Kong Films

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