Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

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