Tropescilloscope: Mystery and Detective Films

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