Tropescilloscope: Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday

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