Tropescilloscope: I Want My Beloved to Be Happy

If I can't have you, fine. Just smile. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Adult Fear Plucky Comic Relief Creepy Child Genre Shift The Oner Celebrity Paradox Dramatic Irony Defiant to the End Improbable Aiming Skills Unreliable Narrator Corrupt Corporate Executive Cool Old Lady Wretched Hive Not Even Bothering with the Accent Jitter Cam Exact Words Only Sane Man Mr. Exposition It Will Never Catch On You Have Failed Me Smoking Is Cool Knife Nut Spanner in the Works Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Heroic BSoD Rousing Speech Dual Wielding Only in It for the Money Moment Killer Our Zombies Are Different Fate Worse than Death Camp Gay Deconstruction Deus ex Machina Pretty in Mink Greater-Scope Villain No Name Given A God Am I Bury Your Gays Epic Fail Curb-Stomp Battle No OSHA Compliance Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bowdlerise Ominous Latin Chanting Woman in White Abusive Parents Dropped a Bridge on Him Bittersweet Ending Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Babies Ever After Advertised Extra Bait-and-Switch Italian Films Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Red Shirt Kids Are Cruel Bavarian Fire Drill Police are Useless Fan Disservice Berserk Button Alliterative Name Tagline Actually Pretty Funny The Stinger Leitmotif Peek-a-Boo Corpse Black Dude Dies First Those Two Bad Guys Worthy Opponent The Film of the Book Playing Gertrude Jerk Jock Smug Snake Fanservice Extra Danny Peary Cult Movies List Red Right Hand Love Triangle Failed a Spot Check Shell-Shocked Veteran Narrator Parental Incest And Starring Kill 'em All Real Life Badass Bookworm Catapult Nightmare Laser-Guided Karma Obfuscating Stupidity Death by Adaptation Hypocritical Humor Determinator The Cameo Love at First Sight Shout-Out Logo Joke Dirty Cop Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Horror Films Stepford Smiler Taking the Bullet Central Theme Fanservice My Greatest Failure The '90s Adaptational Villainy Riddle for the Ages Psycho for Hire Gratuitous English Hell Is That Noise Didn't Think This Through Not So Stoic Death of a Child Establishing Character Moment Anguished Declaration of Love Those Two Guys Foil Asshole Victim Depraved Bisexual Dutch Angle Scenery Gorn Covers Always Lie Catch-Phrase Armor-Piercing Question Woman Scorned As Long as It Sounds Foreign Big Damn Heroes Alpha Bitch Stuff Blowing Up Ungrateful Bastard Idiot Ball All There in the Script Driven to Suicide Creator Cameo Same Language Dub Darkest Hour Race Lift Blatant Lies Flashback Decoy Protagonist Take a Third Option Epic Movie Blackmail Famous Last Words Big Brother Instinct Spell My Name with an "S" Victoria's Secret Compartment Take That! Action Genre Boom, Headshot! Suddenly SHOUTING! Bound and Gagged You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! As the Good Book Says... Spared by the Adaptation Suspiciously Specific Denial Fantasy Films Sanity Slippage Cat Fight Pet the Dog Pyrrhic Victory Curse Cut Short All Just a Dream French Films Overly Long Gag The Alcoholic The '60s Evil Counterpart Married to the Job Maybe Ever After Trailers Always Spoil Psychological Thriller Book-Ends Loophole Abuse Dirty Coward Historical In-Joke Friend to All Children Last-Name Basis Video Credits Rated M for Manly Hero Antagonist Slasher Movie Implacable Man Bilingual Bonus A Minor Kidroduction Spiteful Spit Non-Indicative Name Chiaroscuro Bare Your Midriff Lighter and Softer Truth in Television Morality Pet I'm a Humanitarian Roaring Rampage of Revenge Intrepid Reporter Adapted Out Card-Carrying Villain Cluster F-Bomb Motor Mouth Sci-Fi Horror Diabolus ex Machina Handicapped Badass Age Lift Dogged Nice Guy Auto Erotica Call-Back Rich Bitch Evil-Detecting Dog Chekhov's Skill Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Gory Discretion Shot Hooker with a Heart of Gold Parental Abandonment Five-Man Band Those Wacky Nazis Meaningful Name What Happened to the Mouse? "Shaggy Dog" Story Country Matters Immune to Bullets All Men Are Perverts Extremely Short Timespan Gilligan Cut Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Men Are the Expendable Gender Calling the Old Man Out Posthumous Character Hero of Another Story Would Hit a Girl The '70s Refuge in Audacity Well-Intentioned Extremist The Ghost Black Best Friend Time Skip Blood Knight Villain with Good Publicity Big Applesauce I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Lampshade Hanging Silence Is Golden Ass Shove Say My Name Rule of Three Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Dreaded May–December Romance Bi the Way Heterosexual Life-Partners Bond One-Liner All for Nothing Disney Death Ironic Echo A Date with Rosie Palms Scenery Porn Romantic False Lead Combat Pragmatist Bloodier and Gorier And the Adventure Continues Despair Event Horizon Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Big Eater Neck Snap Deliberate Values Dissonance Naked People Are Funny Evil vs. Evil Car Fu Vomit Indiscretion Shot Historical Hero Upgrade Obviously Evil Knight Templar Drill Sergeant Nasty Zombie Stories Vitriolic Best Buds Adorkable The Mole Black Comedy The Quiet One Annoying Younger Sibling Horror Comedy Meaningful Echo Bring My Brown Pants Ship Tease The Brute Jerkass Has a Point Twist Ending World of Ham Actor Allusion The Musical The Cavalry Domestic Abuse Apocalypse How Cain and Abel Irony Pragmatic Villainy Action Girl Mystery and Detective Films Drugs Are Bad Not So Different Man on Fire Sinister Minister "Where Are They Now?" 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He Who Fights Monsters Re-Cut Kubrick Stare Villain Opening Scene The Lancer The Starscream Badass Grandpa An Aesop Military and Warfare Films I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Black and Gray Morality Meaningful Background Event Skewed Priorities Amusing Injuries Superhero Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Damsel in Distress Killed Mid-Sentence Affably Evil Badass Normal Vomit Discretion Shot The Place Cruel and Unusual Death Informed Ability Hate Sink She Cleans Up Nicely Grey and Gray Morality Mighty Whitey Double Entendre Mr. Fanservice Back from the Dead Training Montage Break the Haughty Reasonable Authority Figure Fat Bastard Amoral Attorney Easily Forgiven Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Based on a True Story Important Haircut Mexican Standoff From Nobody to Nightmare Up to Eleven War Is Hell Off-into-the-Distance Ending Children Are Innocent Ripped from the Headlines Stealth Hi/Bye Novelization Stealth Pun Straight Gay Put on a Bus Air-Vent Passageway Beard of Evil Reality Ensues Daylight Horror The Ace Unspoken Plan Guarantee Rasputinian Death Dying Moment of Awesome Facial Horror Does This Remind You of Anything? Be Careful What You Wish For Artistic License – History The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Documentary Cold-Blooded Torture Only One Name Television Movie Index Punch-Clock Villain Scare Chord Thriller Let's Get Dangerous! Fun with Acronyms Plot Hole Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Wham Line The Ditz Author Avatar Ax-Crazy Naïve Newcomer Film Series Wicked Cultured Shown Their Work Cool Guns Parental Substitute Race Against the Clock The Power of Love Anti-Hero Hollywood Darkness Breaking the Fourth Wall Kick the Dog The Smurfette Principle Dwindling Party Adaptation Dye-Job Call-Forward Villain Protagonist Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Early-Bird Cameo Camera Abuse Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Retirony Chekhov's Gun My God, What Have I Done? 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Sealed Evil in a Can Darker and Edgier Bottomless Magazines Bland-Name Product Hoist by His Own Petard Due to the Dead Lock and Load Montage Word of God Bad Boss Character Development Anachronic Order BFG Bullying a Dragon Good Is Not Nice Badass in a Nice Suit Australian Movies What You Are in the Dark Pimped-Out Dress Obstructive Bureaucrat It's Personal Black Comedy Rape The '50s Brother–Sister Incest Martial Arts Movie Arc Words Big Bad Duumvirate Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Aside Glance Karma Houdini Genre Savvy Totally Radical Exactly What It Says on the Tin Hair-Trigger Temper Our Vampires Are Different Cowboy Cop True Companions Face–Heel Turn Took a Level in Jerkass Break the Cutie Protagonist Title Alas, Poor Villain "Awesome McCool" Name Anyone Can Die Big Bad Drives Like Crazy Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Captain Ersatz Butt-Monkey Nothing Is Scarier Together in Death Get Out! Not Quite Dead Monumental Damage Instant Death Bullet The Un-Reveal Fake Shemp Bald of Evil Ascended Extra Fiery Redhead Grievous Bottley Harm Brick Joke Green-Eyed Monster Mundane Made Awesome Insane Troll Logic Throwing Your Sword Always Works Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Action Prologue Vacation Films Improvised Weapon Mugging the Monster Show Within a Show Silent Movie Male Gaze '80s Hair Film Noir Mooks Animal Title Index Fatal Family Photo B-Movie Hollywood Law Ambiguous Ending Older Than They Look Eyepatch of Power Eye Scream Needs Wiki Magic Love Shower Scene Cool Old Guy Pragmatic Adaptation Adaptation Expansion Room Full of Crazy Evil Plan Outrun the Fireball Improbable Weapon User Department of Redundancy Department Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Adults Are Useless Authority Equals Asskicking Historical-Domain Character Taking You with Me Film Noir Index Costume Porn Sports Stories Dark Action Girl Politically Incorrect Villain Everyone Has Standards Cloudcuckoolander A.I. Is a Crapshoot Fish out of Water Anachronism Stew Big "NO!" Shoot the Shaggy Dog Only Known by Their Nickname Index of Film Westerns Red Oni, Blue Oni Even Evil Has Loved Ones Imagine Spot Anti-Villain The Dog Bites Back Serial Killer Took a Level in Badass Evil Is Hammy Chase Scene Sir Swears-a-Lot Broken Bird Your Head A-Splode Redemption Equals Death Real Life Writes the Plot Demoted to Extra The Dragon Heroes Want Redheads Paper-Thin Disguise Dark and Troubled Past Dull Surprise Reckless Gun Usage Chewing the Scenery Evil Brit Soundtrack Dissonance Chekhov's Gunman My Beloved Smother Body Horror Action Survivor No Antagonist O.O.C. Is Serious Business Title Drop Guns Akimbo How We Got Here Precision F-Strike Japanese Films Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! An Axe to Grind Eureka Moment You Killed My Father Unusually Uninteresting Sight Comically Missing the Point Canon Foreigner Dissonant Serenity Honor Before Reason Psychopathic Manchild The Stoic He Knows Too Much Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The '80s Intergenerational Friendship Ms. Fanservice Not Using the "Z" Word Public Domain Feature Films The Remake Pay Evil unto Evil Blood from the Mouth Bunny-Ears Lawyer Award-Bait Song Does Not Like Shoes Accidental Murder For Want of a Nail Off with His Head! Evil Laugh A Father to His Men Leaning on the Fourth Wall Gold Digger Wounded Gazelle Gambit All Girls Want Bad Boys Artistic License – Geography Disappeared Dad Never Found the Body Sadistic Choice Villain Song Downer Ending Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Arch-Enemy Arranged Marriage Foreshadowing "Well Done, Son!" Guy Mama Bear As You Know Super Strength Casting Gag Homage Fire-Forged Friends Spiritual Successor Once More, with Clarity! 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More Dakka Mythology Gag Nice Hat Foregone Conclusion Vampire Fiction Stylistic Suck For the Evulz Badass Longcoat Make It Look Like an Accident Gainax Ending Bloody Hilarious Brainless Beauty Rule of Cool Groin Attack Recycled IN SPACE! The Bully Freeze-Frame Bonus Shipper on Deck Tap on the Head Expy Police Brutality The Bad Guy Wins She's Got Legs Visual Pun Beauty Is Never Tarnished Not What It Looks Like I Need a Freaking Drink Antagonist Title The Chick In the Back Fourth Date Marriage Funny Foreigner Captain Obvious Only a Flesh Wound No-Sell It Can Think Fainting Early Installment Weirdness Adaptational Attractiveness Star-Crossed Lovers Meet Cute The Sociopath Running Gag Developing Doomed Characters