Tropescilloscope: Ironic Echo

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