Tropescilloscope: Madness Mantra

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