Tropescilloscope: Music Stories

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