Tropescilloscope: Italian Films

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