Tropescilloscope: Music Stories

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