Tropescilloscope: Music Stories

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