Tropescilloscope: Imagine Spot

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