Tropescilloscope: Italian Films

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