Tropescilloscope: Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality

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