Tropescilloscope: Moment Killer

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