Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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