Tropescilloscope: Moment Killer

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