Tropescilloscope: Mystery and Detective Films

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