Tropescilloscope: Hooker with a Heart of Gold

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