Tropescilloscope: Italian Films

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