Tropescilloscope: It's All About Me

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