Tropescilloscope: Hooker with a Heart of Gold

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