Tropescilloscope: Male Gaze

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