Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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