Tropescilloscope: Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality

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