Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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