Tropescilloscope: Meet Cute

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