Tropescilloscope: Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality

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