Tropescilloscope: Music Stories

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