Tropescilloscope: In the Back

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