Tropescilloscope: Mexican Standoff

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