Tropescilloscope: Hong Kong Films

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