Tropescilloscope: It Can Think

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