Tropescilloscope: Hong Kong Films

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