Tropescilloscope: Moment Killer

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