Tropescilloscope: Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday

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