Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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