Tropescilloscope: It Can Think

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