Tropescilloscope: Italian Films

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