Tropescilloscope: I Want My Beloved to Be Happy

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