Tropescilloscope: Hooker with a Heart of Gold

The sex worker who cares. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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