Tropescilloscope: It Can Think

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