Tropescilloscope: Loophole Abuse

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