Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

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