Tropescilloscope: Music Stories

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