Tropescilloscope: Music Stories

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