Tropescilloscope: Moment Killer

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