Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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