Tropescilloscope: Music Stories

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