Tropescilloscope: It Can Think

Objects or animals are hinted to have intelligence and will. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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