Tropescilloscope: Imagine Spot

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