Tropescilloscope: Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday

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