Tropescilloscope: Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday

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