Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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