Tropescilloscope: It Can Think

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