Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

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