Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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