Tropescilloscope: Moment Killer

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