Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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