Tropescilloscope: Insistent Terminology

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