Tropescilloscope: Imagine Spot

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