Tropescilloscope: Loophole Abuse

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