Tropescilloscope: Moment Killer

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