Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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