Tropescilloscope: Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday

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