Tropescilloscope: Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday

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