Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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