Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

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