Tropescilloscope: Mystery and Detective Films

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