Tropescilloscope: It Can Think

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