Tropescilloscope: In the Back

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