Tropescilloscope: Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday

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