Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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