Tropescilloscope: It Can Think

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