Tropescilloscope: Impaled with Extreme Prejudice

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