Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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