Tropescilloscope: Moment Killer

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