Tropescilloscope: Italian Films

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