Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

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