Tropescilloscope: Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday

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