Tropescilloscope: Horror Films

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