Tropescilloscope: Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday

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