Tropescilloscope: Ironic Echo

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