Tropescilloscope: Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday

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