Tropescilloscope: Imagine Spot

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