Tropescilloscope: In the Back

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