Tropescilloscope: Music Stories

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