Tropescilloscope: Italian Films

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