Tropescilloscope: Music Stories

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