Tropescilloscope: Horror Films

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