Tropescilloscope: Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality

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