Tropescilloscope: I Have Your Wife

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