Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

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