Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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