Tropescilloscope: Insistent Terminology

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