Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

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