Tropescilloscope: Horror Films

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