Tropescilloscope: Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality

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