Tropescilloscope: Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday

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