Tropescilloscope: Kubrick Stare

Head down, eyes up, wicked smile or grimace. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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