Tropescilloscope: Made of Iron

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