Tropescilloscope: It's All About Me

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