Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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