Tropescilloscope: Italian Films

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