Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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