Tropescilloscope: Moment Killer

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