Tropescilloscope: It Can Think

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

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Reasonable Authority Figure There Is No Kill Like Overkill Police are Useless From Bad to Worse The Un-Reveal Eldritch Abomination Artistic License – History Adult Fear Accidental Murder Destination Defenestration A.I. Is a Crapshoot A Minor Kidroduction Implacable Man Silence Is Golden The Vamp Christmas Movies Index Sanity Slippage Adorkable The Faceless The '60s Animal Motifs Would Hurt a Child All Men Are Perverts Better to Die than Be Killed Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Rule of Symbolism Black Best Friend Expository Hairstyle Change Big "NO!" The '90s Fish out of Water Nice Guy Bar Brawl Needs Wiki Magic Love Epic Movie As Long as It Sounds Foreign Catch-Phrase Fingore Annoying Younger Sibling Ax-Crazy Evil Plan Brainless Beauty folderlabel Reality Is Unrealistic Stock Footage I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Drugs Are Bad Aluminum Christmas Trees Star-Crossed Lovers Ascended Extra Works Set in World War II Anguished Declaration of Love Blood from the Mouth Scenery Gorn Decoy Protagonist Friend to All Children Eiffel Tower Effect Boom, Headshot! Groin Attack Daddy's Girl Token Minority Heroic Sacrifice Not Quite Dead Eureka Moment The Chessmaster Body Horror Overly Long Gag The Starscream For the Evulz Meaningful Echo Honor Before Reason Red Herring Mind Screw Accidental Misnaming Face Death with Dignity Stuff Blowing Up Good Is Not Nice Empathic Environment The '70s My Beloved Smother Military and Warfare Films Historical Hero Upgrade Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Cat Scare Maybe Ever After Brutal Honesty Disney Death You Have Failed Me Important Haircut Get Out! I Need a Freaking Drink The Load Running Gag Femme Fatale Bloody Hilarious Blackmail Depraved Bisexual Composite Character Smoking Is Cool Darker and Edgier Mama Bear Totally Radical Worthy Opponent Corrupt Corporate Executive Big Fancy House Laser-Guided Karma Action Prologue Funny Background Event Disappeared Dad Leitmotif Casting Gag Paper-Thin Disguise Knife Nut Television Movie Index Broken Pedestal Expy Older Than They Look You Killed My Father Serious Business Punny Name What the Hell, Hero? 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Show Within a Show Papa Wolf Left the Background Music On Air-Vent Passageway Butt-Monkey Sexy Discretion Shot Rape as Drama Italian Films Action Girl Madness Mantra "Shaggy Dog" Story War Is Hell Framing Device Creepy Child Arranged Marriage Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" My Greatest Failure Names to Run Away from Really Fast Married to the Job Cool Guns Auto Erotica Even Evil Has Standards The Dog Bites Back Toplessness from the Back Tap on the Head Curse Cut Short Taking the Bullet You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Kids Are Cruel Death by Sex Sir Swears-a-Lot Cluster F-Bomb Badass Grandpa Does Not Like Shoes Storming the Castle Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Lock and Load Montage Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Laughing Mad Refuge in Audacity Spared by the Adaptation Historical-Domain Character The Alleged Car Captain Obvious How We Got Here Black and Gray Morality Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Race Lift No Celebrities Were Harmed Batman Gambit Light Is Not Good Hong Kong Films B-Movie Fatal Flaw Intergenerational Friendship Bi the Way Wrong Genre Savvy Foreshadowing Suddenly SHOUTING! Dogged Nice Guy Parental Neglect Agony of the Feet Scary Black Man Beta Couple Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Badass in a Nice Suit Cruel and Unusual Death Stepford Smiler Adults Are Useless Establishing Character Moment Double Entendre A God Am I Knight Templar Chewing the Scenery Fantasy Films Car Fu Only Sane Man Nice Hat Defrosting Ice Queen Easily Forgiven It Can Think Properly Paranoid Roaring Rampage of Revenge Didn't Think This Through She's Got Legs Curb-Stomp Battle Never Found the Body Funny Foreigner Early-Bird Cameo Daylight Horror Enemy Mine Despair Event Horizon Artistic License – Law Romantic Comedy Actually Pretty Funny Sequel Hook The Atoner Big Brother Instinct The Stoner Unspoken Plan Guarantee Alpha Bitch The Ghost Same Language Dub Adaptation Distillation Red Right Hand Large Ham Parental Abandonment Slap-Slap-Kiss Becoming the Mask Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Genre Savvy Jerkass Has a Point Failed a Spot Check Closed Circle Gold Digger Noodle Incident Say My Name Immune to Bullets Henpecked Husband Ms. Fanservice MacGuffin Product Placement La Résistance Hollywood Law Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Shower Scene Vomit Indiscretion Shot Setting Update Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Bowdlerise Hero Antagonist Hypocritical Humor Mad Scientist Insult Backfire Bond Villain Stupidity Mythology Gag Scenery Porn Here We Go Again! Damsel in Distress Call-Forward Canon Foreigner Freeze-Frame Bonus Even Evil Has Loved Ones Jump Scare Due to the Dead Camera Abuse Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Humans Are Bastards Kubrick Stare Suspiciously Specific Denial Age Lift Dying Moment of Awesome Flashback Artistic License – Biology Blatant Lies Hero of Another Story Love at First Sight Beauty Is Never Tarnished Chiaroscuro Badass Boast Bad "Bad Acting" Twist Ending Woman Scorned Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Mr. Fanservice Neck Lift The Hero Foregone Conclusion Cool Old Guy Bunny-Ears Lawyer Breaking the Fourth Wall BFG Real Life Writes the Plot Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Film Noir Index No OSHA Compliance Dramatic Irony Film Noir Truth in Television Novelization Insane Troll Logic Catapult Nightmare Irony Bound and Gagged Wham Shot Drives Like Crazy Deadpan Snarker Science Fiction Films Missing Mom Shoot the Shaggy Dog Pre-Mortem One-Liner Mystery and Detective Films Cool Old Lady Death by Adaptation Broken Bird Darkest Hour Artistic License – Military Manchild Soft Glass Fourth Date Marriage Bilingual Bonus No Ending Off-into-the-Distance Ending Tagline Stealth Hi/Bye Informed Ability Cool Car Evil Is Hammy Eagleland Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Stalker with a Crush Wicked Cultured Crapsack World Hate Sink Homage Mistaken for Gay She Cleans Up Nicely Adaptational Badass Room Full of Crazy Visual Pun "The Reason You Suck" Speech Authority Equals Asskicking Action Survivor Redemption Equals Death May–December Romance Betty and Veronica Bolivian Army Ending Tempting Fate Crazy Jealous Guy As the Good Book Says... Insistent Terminology Dark Action Girl Covers Always Lie Award-Bait Song Handicapped Badass The Ace Music Stories Dressing as the Enemy Reality Has No Subtitles Wounded Gazelle Gambit Blood Knight Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Historical In-Joke And Starring Affably Evil Heel–Face Turn Retirony "Awesome McCool" Name Back from the Dead Video Credits Chase Scene Spiritual Successor Improvised Weapon Break the Haughty Affectionate Parody Mood Whiplash Developing Doomed Characters A Father to His Men Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Plot Hole Did Not Get the Girl Those Wacky Nazis Alliterative Name Bottomless Magazines Big Bad Police Brutality Wham Line Unresolved Sexual Tension Adapted Out Obviously Evil Woman in White timeperiod The Remake Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun 20 Minutes into the Future Bittersweet Ending Psycho for Hire The Mole And the Adventure Continues Flipping the Bird Only a Flesh Wound What You Are in the Dark Revenge Trailers Always Spoil Villain with Good Publicity Loophole Abuse Amusing Injuries Man on Fire Central Theme Stealth Pun Bloodless Carnage Book-Ends Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Adaptational Attractiveness Call-Back Sadistic Choice Demonic Possession Title Drop Domestic Abuse Ghost Fiction The Film of the Book No Antagonist Ominous Latin Chanting Break the Cutie Historical Villain Upgrade Half the Man He Used to Be Male Gaze Dropped a Bridge on Him Ungrateful Bastard Calling the Old Man Out Conspicuous CG Dramedy Contrived Coincidence Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Gender Flip Dark and Troubled Past Sole Survivor Author Avatar Cat Fight Market-Based Title Took a Level in Badass Oh, Crap! Offscreen Teleportation Based on a True Story Loads and Loads of Characters Kill It with Fire Jitter Cam A Date with Rosie Palms Corpsing N-Word Privileges Apocalypse How Meet Cute Reckless Gun Usage Jerkass Skewed Priorities Public Domain Feature Films Victoria's Secret Compartment Manic Pixie Dream Girl Shout-Out Final Girl Intrepid Reporter Mundane Made Awesome The Reveal Rule of Three Pay Evil unto Evil Your Head A-Splode Eye Scream Sinister Minister Big Damn Heroes Black Comedy Red Eyes, Take Warning The Hero Dies Playing Gertrude Never My Fault Only Known by Their Nickname Fan Disservice Fiery Redhead As You Know Facial Horror Fat Bastard Not What It Looks Like Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The X of Y Manipulative Bastard Bury Your Gays Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Red Oni, Blue Oni Exact Words Fantastic Racism Our Vampires Are Different Reality Ensues Time Skip The Ditz The Cavalry Your Cheating Heart Hope Spot Bait-and-Switch Pragmatic Adaptation Overprotective Dad Bullying a Dragon Character Development Face–Heel Turn Moment Killer Ambiguously Gay I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Unusually Uninteresting Sight Frame-Up Cloudcuckoolander Kick the Dog Improbable Weapon User "Well Done, Son!" Guy Jerk with a Heart of Gold An Aesop Animal Title Index Malevolent Masked Men Mr. Exposition Danny Peary Cult Movies List Costume Porn Love Triangle Would Hit a Girl Posthumous Character Psychological Thriller Belligerent Sexual Tension Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Karma Houdini Guile Hero Department of Redundancy Department Drill Sergeant Nasty Ambiguous Ending Heel Realization Four-Temperament Ensemble Big Bad Duumvirate Slashed Throat Spanner in the Works Deconstruction Bad Boss Adaptation Expansion Antagonist Title Russian Films This Is Gonna Suck Abusive Parents Brick Joke Make It Look Like an Accident Grievous Bottley Harm Bring My Brown Pants Real Life Take a Third Option It's All About Me The Mafia Adaptational Villainy Fanservice Extra Yandere Famous Last Words French Films More Dakka German Films The Casanova Hell Is That Noise Those Two Bad Guys Naïve Newcomer Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Shirtless Scene The Chick As Himself All There in the Manual Almost Kiss Five-Man Band Leaning on the Fourth Wall Villain Opening Scene Scare Chord Shipper on Deck Took a Level in Jerkass Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Deliberately Monochrome Lighter and Softer Ship Tease No-Sell No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Place Beware the Nice Ones Let's Get Dangerous! Offscreen Moment of Awesome Off with His Head! Death Seeker "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Lampshade Hanging Recycled IN SPACE! 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Precision F-Strike British Films Grey and Gray Morality Hidden Depths The Stinger Brother–Sister Incest Death Glare Abhorrent Admirer Fatal Family Photo The Quiet One I'm a Humanitarian Hypocrite Biopic Big-Bad Ensemble Fainting Cassandra Truth Continuity Nod Dissonant Serenity Monumental Damage Hoist by His Own Petard Hooker with a Heart of Gold Camp Gay Rule of Cool Undying Loyalty Together in Death Rule of Funny The Dreaded Crucified Hero Shot Be Careful What You Wish For The Power of Love Rasputinian Death Sports Stories Meaningful Background Event Spell My Name with an "S" Male Frontal Nudity Vomit Discretion Shot Silent Movie The Alcoholic Fun with Acronyms Neck Snap Ironic Echo Earn Your Happy Ending Diabolus ex Machina Horror Films Plucky Comic Relief Amoral Attorney Men Are the Expendable Gender Sealed Evil in a Can Hollywood Darkness Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Combat Pragmatist Jerk Jock Unreliable Narrator Fanservice Arc Words Bloodier and Gorier Bond One-Liner Villain Ball No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Badass Longcoat Major Injury Underreaction Match Cut Shut Up, Hannibal! Translation Convention Arch-Enemy Pretty Little Headshots The Musical Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Determinator It's Personal Beard of Evil Exactly What It Says on the Tin Creative Closing Credits Heroic BSoD Heterosexual Life-Partners Big Eater Does This Remind You of Anything? Throwing Your Sword Always Works Aside Glance Last-Name Basis Killed Mid-Sentence Self-Deprecation Canadian Movies Death of a Child Romantic False Lead The Dragon Retired Badass The Voiceless Serial Killer Anachronism Stew The Smurfette Principle Horror Comedy Disguised in Drag Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Protagonist Title Distracted by the Sexy Adaptation Dye-Job All Girls Want Bad Boys Peek-a-Boo Corpse Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Ripped from the Headlines Instant Death Bullet The Oner Rich Bitch The Smart Guy Determinator aka: The Determinator Deal with the Devil Vacation Films Nothing Is Scarier Coming-of-Age Story Dirty Old Man Australian Movies The Big Guy Never Trust a Trailer Guns Akimbo Well-Intentioned Extremist Poor Communication Kills Genre Shift Thriller Mooks NO INDOOR VOICE Once More, with Clarity! Sequel Escalation Card-Carrying Villain Obfuscating Stupidity Dutch Angle Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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