Tropescilloscope: Italian Films

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