Tropescilloscope: Insult Backfire

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