Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

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