Tropescilloscope: Male Gaze

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