Tropescilloscope: Music Stories

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