Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

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