Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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