Tropescilloscope: Moment Killer

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